AMERICAN CO-CHAIR OF OSCE MINSK GROUP WILL NOT ARRIVE IN BAKU
Author: E.Huseynov
TREND Information, Azerbaijan
Nov 21 2006
The American Co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, Matthew Bryza, will
now not be travelling to Baku, the Head of the Press Service of the
U.S. Embassy in Azerbaijan, Jonathan Henik informed Trend.
According to Henik, the Co-chair’s visit will not take place due to his
busy schedule. On 23-24 November, SA celebrates its National Holiday,
Thanksgiving Day. "The American co-chair has good inter-relations
with other co-chairs of the Minsk Group and they will represent his
interests in the talks," Henik underlined, adding that Bryza’s visit
to Yerevan scheduled for 21 November has also been cancelled. The
agreement of the visit of the co-chairs to the region was confirmed
during the meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Azerbaijan Elmar
Mammadyarov and Armenia Vardan Oskanyan in Brussels on 14 November. The
mediators will hold negotiations with the heads of these countries to
discuss the recent initiatives regarding the solution of the peaceful
settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
During the visit, the topic of discussions will be the organization
of the meeting of the Azerbaijani and Armenian Presidents that is
scheduled to take place on 28 November in Minsk.