NEW DIPLOMAT TO REPRESENT RUSSIA IN KARABAKH CONFLICT SETTLEMENT

news.az
Feb 26 2010
Azerbaijan

Yuri Merzlyakov Russia is changing its ambassador on special affairs
dealing with the issue of the Karabakh conflict.

Official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Andrei
Nesterenko told at a briefing in Moscow that Yuri Merzlyakov was
appointed to a new diplomatic position.

Answering the due question from the Azerbaijani journalist, Nesterenko
did not confirm but did not reject that this position may be empowered
to Igor Popov, former ambassador on special issues in the earlier
existing mixed commission on Georgian-South Ossetian conflict.

The diplomat urged to wait for the appointment and voiced confidence
that the new ambassador will work as energetically as the previous one.

"The position of our country is not defined by our representatives,
it is specified by the president and executed by the foreign ministry",
he said.