U.S. CONCERNED ABOUT NKR ISSUE

Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am
Sept 9 2009
Armenia

09:44 / 09/09/2009"Robert Bradtke’s appointment as U.S. OSCE MG
Co-Chair proves the point the U.S. makes of Karabakh peace process,"
Head of Foreign Relations Committee of Armenian National Congress
Vladimir Karapetyan told NEWS.am.

According to him, Bradtke is an experienced diplomat with an extensive
expertise in crisis management. "His previous service was in a crisis
spot. The problem he will be hereafter focused on is similar to what
he did before. The fact that former U.S. Ambassador assumed a post
of the OSCE MG U.S. Co-Chair proves the intensity of the current
U.S. administration attitude to the issue," Karapetyan stated.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appointed Sept. 7 Robert
Bradtke as OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair following Matthew Bryza. Formerly,
he was a U.S. Ambassador to Croatia, in 2001-2004 served as Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs,
with responsibility for NATO and OSCE. In 1983 he worked at the
U.S. Embassy in Moscow.