MATTHEW BRYZA APPOINTED NEW CO-CHAIRMAN OF OSCE MINSK GROUP
Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Jun 15 2006
YEREVAN, JUNE 15, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. Matthew Bryza,
the U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary for State of European and
Eurasian Affairs, was appointed the new Co-Chairman of the OSCE
Minsk Group. Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian informed Radio
Liberty about it on June 14.
"The American side informed us that Matthew Bryza will take Steven
Mann’s place, and he will be completely involved in work, after
being affirmed in Vienna. He will probably visit the region to get
acquainted with main performers," Vartan Oskanian mentioned.
Speaking about the negotiations taken place on Tuesday in Paris with
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mamedyarov, Vartan Oskanian facted
that "the goal of the meeting was to attempt to find additional borders
in those issues on which the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan
did not agree."
"I do not think that we succeeded in it, however, it was a useful
discussion, and a continuation will be," Foreign Minister of Armenia
said.
Responding the issue if a new meeting with the Presidents is expected,
Vartan Oskanian answered: "If there is at least not a bit of approach,
the meeting will just have no meaning. I may not predetermine, the
Presidents will decide. But I think additional meetings will take
place at the Ministers’ level."