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OSCE MEDIATORS SET TO INTENSIFY EFFORTS OVER KARABAKH CONFLICT -AZERI AGENCY
Trend news agency
3 Apr 06
Baku, 3 April: The co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group [set up to
broker a peace deal on the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia
over Nagornyy Karabakh] may visit the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict
region in May, group's Russian co-chairman Yuriy Merzlyakov has told
Trend in an exclusive interview.
He said that French co-chairman Bernard Fassier was expected to pay
a visit to the region shortly. Moreover, Armenian Foreign Minister
Vardan Oskanyan is planning to visit Moscow in April, while Azerbaijani
Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov will visit Washington. They will
discuss the current status of peace talks and determine future steps
during the visits.
The process of talks, consultations and working meetings are under
way following the meeting of the Minsk Group mediators in Istanbul,
Merzlyakov said. Further steps and an exact date for the visit of
the co-chairmen to the region will be clear following the meetings,
he said and added that all the sides will not be able to visit the
region in the second half of April.
Merzlyakov noted that he had not joined the consultations over the past
weeks, including the Istanbul meeting of the co-chairmen on 20 March.
Trend news agency
3 Apr 06
Baku, 3 April: The co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group [set up to
broker a peace deal on the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia
over Nagornyy Karabakh] may visit the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict
region in May, group's Russian co-chairman Yuriy Merzlyakov has told
Trend in an exclusive interview.
He said that French co-chairman Bernard Fassier was expected to pay
a visit to the region shortly. Moreover, Armenian Foreign Minister
Vardan Oskanyan is planning to visit Moscow in April, while Azerbaijani
Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov will visit Washington. They will
discuss the current status of peace talks and determine future steps
during the visits.
The process of talks, consultations and working meetings are under
way following the meeting of the Minsk Group mediators in Istanbul,
Merzlyakov said. Further steps and an exact date for the visit of
the co-chairmen to the region will be clear following the meetings,
he said and added that all the sides will not be able to visit the
region in the second half of April.
Merzlyakov noted that he had not joined the consultations over the past
weeks, including the Istanbul meeting of the co-chairmen on 20 March.