BAKU: OSCE MG Co-Chairs To Visit Region Next Week – Armenian FM

OSCE MG CO-CHAIRS TO VISIT REGION NEXT WEEK – ARMENIAN FM

TREND Information, Azerbaijan
Sept 29 2006

The Co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group will arrive in Yerevan on October
3 on a regional visit, Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan told
a press conference in Yerevan on September 29.

Oskanyan described his meeting with the mediators held in New York
early this week as "useful", Trend reports quoting "Medimaks".

According to Oskanyan, this meeting brought clarity to the situation
in the negotiation process.

The Minister said that the prospect of organizing the meeting with
the Azerbaijani and Armenian Foreign Ministers will depend upon the
results of the Co-chairs’ visit.

In addition, Oskanyan stressed that the composition and mandate of
the OSCE mission that will visit the territories located on the border
with Nagorno-Karabakh to study the affects of fires have already been
clarified. Oskanyan announced the readiness of the Armenian side
to render necessary assistance to the mission. The OSCE mission is
expected to visit the region in the near future.