RA FOREIGN MINISTER NOT SCHEDULED TO MEET OSCE MG CO-CHAIRS IN PARIS

PanARMENIAN.Net
03.03.2010 11:17 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian is not
scheduled to visit Paris for a meeting with Co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk
Group, RA MFA spokesman Tigran Balayan told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.

According to Azeri media reports, Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Elmar
Mammadyarov will meet with the international mediators in Paris on
March 6.

The OSCE Minsk Group was created in 1992 to encourage a peaceful,
negotiated resolution to the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. The Minsk
Group is headed by a Co-Chairmanship consisting of France, Russia and
the United States. The main objectives of the Minsk Process are as
follows: Providing an appropriate framework for conflict resolution
in the way of assuring the negotiation process supported by the Minsk
Group; Obtaining conclusion by the Parties of an agreement on the
cessation of the armed conflict in order to permit the convening of
the Minsk Conference; Promoting the peace process by deploying OSCE
multinational peacekeeping forces.