BAKU: US Deputy Assistant Secretary Of State Arrives In Azerbaijan

US DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE ARRIVES IN AZERBAIJAN

Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
Aug 2 2007

US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, OSCE Minsk Group co-chair
Matthew Bryza arrived in Baku, US embassy in Azerbaijan told the APA.

Mr. Bryza will carry out negotiations with Azerbaijani senior officials
today and tomorrow.

He will meet Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Foreign Minister Elmar
Mammadyarov, Industry and Energy Minister Natig Aliyev and they will
debate Azerbaijan-US bilateral relations, state of negotiation process
on the settlement of Nagorno Karabakh conflict. American co-chair will
inform Azerbaijani senior officials about the talks he carried out with
his counterparts in Moscow yesterday and meetings he had with Russian
Deputies of Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin and Alexander Grushko.

Mr. Bryza visited Tbilisi and Yerevan before Baku.