OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs To Meet Armenian, Azeri Foreign Ministers

OSCE MINSK GROUP CO-CHAIRS TO MEET ARMENIAN, AZERI FOREIGN MINISTERS

Yerkir
26.10.2009 13:39

Yerevan (Yerkir) – The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Ambassadors
Yury Merzlyakov of Russia, Bernard Fassier of France, and Robert
Bradtke of the United States, have released a statement, saying:
"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."

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS