Interfax, Russia
Feb 27 2009

Minsk Group co-chairmen begin visit to Karabakh conflict region

BAKU Feb 27

The co-chairmen of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe’s Minsk Group for Karabakh Settlement are beginning one more
visit to the Karabakh conflict region at the initiative of the Azeri
and Armenian leaders, the Russian mediator, Yury Merzlyakov, has
announced.

"The parties’ vision of the problem must be examined now. After all
the questions have been studied in their entirety, they must be
presented to the parties, and we will return to Baku after the visit
to do that," Merzlyakov told the press on his arrival in Baku on
Thursday.

"We are to negotiate the remaining disagreements now," he said.

The Minsk Group co-chairmen are to meet with the Azeri leadership on
Friday.