OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs to visit the region in early October

2009-09-26 14:40:00

ArmInfo. The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Ambassadors Yury
Merzlyakov of Russia, Bernard Fassier of France, and Robert Bradtke of
the United States, released the following statement today:

"The newly-appointed United States’ Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group
Ambassador Robert Bradtke invited French Co-Chair Ambassador Bernard
Fassier, Russian Co-Chair Ambassador Yury Merzlyakov, and Personal
Representative of the Chairman-in-Office Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk to
Washington D.C. September 24 for consultations. The Co-Chairs met with
Dr. Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Senior Director for European Affairs at
the National Security Council and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
Tina Kaidanow.

The Co-Chairs met September 25 in New York with Azerbaijani Foreign
Minister Elmar Mammadyarov and Armenian Foreign Minister Edward
Nalbandian on the margins of the UN General Assembly. The two foreign
ministers and the Co-Chairs reaffirmed a commitment to negotiations
based on the Basic Principles, and discussed upcoming travel of the
Co-Chairs to the region in early October.

As agreed in Moscow July 18, the Co-Chairs will travel to Armenia and
Azerbaijan to prepare for a proposed meeting between President Aliyev
and President Sargsian in Chisinau on the margins of the CIS Summit.

At this important moment in the negotiating process, the Co-Chairs
called on both sides to be constructive in their public statements."