US DEPARTMENT OF STATE OFFICIALS TO HOLD TALKS ON TOP IN BAKU
Author: R.Abdullayev
TREND Information, Azerbaijan
May 23 2006
During the two-day visit to Azerbaijan the US Assistant Secretary of
State, Daniel Fried, and the OSCE Minsk Group co-chair, US Ambassador
Steven Mann , are scheduled to hold meetings at the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs and the Azerbaijani President Apparat.
Jonathan Henick, the spokesman for the US embassy in Baku, told
Trend that no event with the participation of the US officials has
been scheduled.
Along with US officials, the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir
Karasin and the Director of the French Foreign Institute for political
issues, Stanislav D’Labule will pay a visit to Azerbaijan on 24 May.
The two-day visit will focus on the situation with the resolution of
the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh.
They will be accompanied by OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs, Russian
Ambassador Yuriy Merzlyakov, and French Ambassador Bernard Fassie.
Earlier, the Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian said that the
co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group visit Armenia on 25-26 May.