KARABAKH MEDIATORS TO MEET ON 5 MAY

news.az
April 27 2010
Azerbaijan

The OSCE Minsk Group mediators will meet at OSCE Headquarters in
Vienna on 5 May.

The mediators will brief the OSCE chairman-in-office, Kazakh Foreign
Minister Kanat Saudabayev, and representatives of the Minsk Group
co-chairing countries, on the negotiating process to find a settlement
to the Karabakh conflict.

Both the former and current Russian co-chairs of the Minsk Group,
Yury Merzlyakov and Igor Popov respectively, French co-chair
Bernard Fassier, American co-chair Robert Bradkte and the personal
representative of the OSCE chairman-in-office, Andrzej Kasprzyk met
on 22 April. A statement issued after the meeting said that recent
meetings in Baku, Washington and Moscow had provided ‘a new impetus
to the advancement of a peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict on the basis of the Madrid Principles’.

Yury Merzlyakov will officially hand over his post to Igor Popov at
the Vienna meeting.