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    US MEDIATOR TO VISIT AZERBAIJAN

    Assa-Irada, Azerbaijan
    April 18 2006

    The US co-chairman of the OSCE Minsk Group brokering settlement to
    the Armenia-Azerbaijan Upper (Garabagh) conflict is due to arrive
    in Baku from the Armenian capital this weekend, according to the
    spokeswoman for the US embassy in Armenia, Elizabeth Santos.

    Steven Mann's visit was earlier scheduled for Tuesday and the reasons
    for the postponement are not disclosed.

    Santos said that prior to the visit, Mann is expected to meet with
    the Russian mediator Yuri Merzlyakov. He will leave for Yerevan on
    Thursday and further visit Azerbaijan.

    While in Armenia, Mann is scheduled to meet with President Robert
    Kocharian and Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian. He may hold a news
    briefing in conclusion of the discussions, the diplomat said.

    Armenia earlier claimed that the US mediator's visit to the region
    would be confined to his meetings in Azerbaijan.

    This will be the second visit by Mann to the region since the fruitless
    round of talks between Presidents Ilham Aliyev and Robert Kocharian
    in Rambouillet, France in February. He paid his last visit to Baku
    jointly with the US Department of State Assistant Secretary for
    European and Eurasian Affairs, Daniel Fried, on March 13.
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