OSCE MINSK GROUP CO-CHAIRS TO MEET ARMENIAN, AZERBAIJANI FOREIGN MINISTERS IN LUXEMBURG

armradio.am
24.10.2009 12:56

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 OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs (Ambassador Yuri Merzlyakov, the
Russian Federation; Ambassador Bernard Fassier, France; Ambassador
Robert Bradtke, United States) attended a "Retreat on OSCE Mediation
Activities" hosted October 22-23 by the OSCE Conflict Prevention
Center in Vienna, Austria. After the retreat, the Co-Chairs provided
a quarterly briefing to the OSCE Minsk Group.

On the margins of the retreat, each Ambassador individually
participated in different bilateral meetings with a variety of
interlocutors, including, among others, Greek Ambassador Marinaki,
representing the OSCE Chairman-in-Office; OSCE Secretary General
Perrin de Brichambaut; Armenian Ambassador Hovakimian; Azerbaijani
Ambassador Ismayilov; Kazakh Ambassador Abdrakhmanov; Swedish
Ambassador Bard-Bringeus, representing the EU presidency; and Turkish
Deputy Undersecretary Cevikoz.

The Co-Chairs will also travel to Luxembourg October 25-27 to
meet Armenian Foreign Minister Nalbandian and Azerbaijani Foreign
Minister Mammadyarov. They will address plans for their next trip
to Baku and Yerevan in November and preparation for discussion of
the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement at the OSCE Ministerial Council in
December 2009."