YEREVAN WELCOMES APPOINTMENT OF NEW U.S. MEDIATOR ON KARABAKH – FOREIGN MINISTRY

Interfax, Russia
Sept 8 2009
Yerevan

Armenia is ready to work with the new United States co-chairman
of the OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe)
Minsk Group mediating the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Armenian Foreign
Ministry spokesman Tigran Balaian told Interfax.

"We are ready to work with the new U.S. mediator. Our position on
the resolution of the conflict has not changed: Armenia is committed
to the peaceful resolution of this problem through negotiations,"
Balaian said.

Last Monday the U.S. Secretary of State appointed Ambassador Robert
Bradtke as the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairman.