AMERICAN AND RUSSIAN OSCE CO-CHAIRMEN TO HELD CONSULTATIONS IN MOSCOW
Author: E. Huseynov

TREND Information, Azerbaijan
April 17 2006

Consultations with the American OSCE Minsk group co-chairman, Steven
Mann will be held in the Russian Foreign Ministry on April 19, OSCE
co-chairman from Russia, Yuri Merzlyakov told Trend.

Consultations on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict regulation will take place
on the eve of Mann` s visit to the region, he said.

The similar consultations took place in Moscow on April 14 on the
results of the visit to the region of the French mediator, Bernard
Fasie

, Mrzlyakov said. The French diplomat has been accepted by the
Russian vice foreign minister, G. Karasin and both sides discussed
coordination of the OSCE Minsk group activities (Russia, USA, France)
and further steps in the conflict resolution.

Speaking about the inconsistency in the co-chairmen proposals,
Merzlyakov said all matters discussed in the course of separate
visits of mediators to the region “are coordinated and practically
the same thing.”

He added that the co-chairmen will pay a joint visit to the region at
the beginning of May. Before, they will hold a consultation in Moscow.