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Baku Today, Azerbaijan
July 29 2006
US mediator to start visit to the region Saturday
AssA-Irada 29/07/2006 20:12
The new US co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group brokering settlement to
the Armenia-Azerbaijan Upper (Nagorno) Garabagh conflict, Matthew
Bryza, will start his first visit to the region in this capacity on
Saturday.
He is expected to visit Yerevan first, then Khankandi, the center of
the self-proclaimed Upper Garabagh republic, and then arrive in Baku.
The diplomat will hold talks with the Azeri and Armenian government
and then inform the other two co-chairs from Russia and France of the
outcome of discussions.
On Tuesday, Bryza is due to meet with President Ilham Aliyev, Foreign
Minister Elmar Mammadyarov and the head of the Azerbaijani community
of Upper Garabagh, Nizami Bahmanov.
The spokesman for the Azeri Foreign Ministry, Tahir Taghizada, said
the US mediator's visit aims to promote the negotiating process. He
noted that the opportunities for reaching peace have not been
exhausted yet.
`I believe that the key issue is that Bryza will pay his first visit
to the region in the capacity of the Minsk Group co-chair. Our hope
is for the visit to give an impetus to further negotiations,' the
diplomat said.
The OSCE mediators are expected to gather in Paris after Bryza's
visit to discuss future plans.
July 29 2006
US mediator to start visit to the region Saturday
AssA-Irada 29/07/2006 20:12
The new US co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group brokering settlement to
the Armenia-Azerbaijan Upper (Nagorno) Garabagh conflict, Matthew
Bryza, will start his first visit to the region in this capacity on
Saturday.
He is expected to visit Yerevan first, then Khankandi, the center of
the self-proclaimed Upper Garabagh republic, and then arrive in Baku.
The diplomat will hold talks with the Azeri and Armenian government
and then inform the other two co-chairs from Russia and France of the
outcome of discussions.
On Tuesday, Bryza is due to meet with President Ilham Aliyev, Foreign
Minister Elmar Mammadyarov and the head of the Azerbaijani community
of Upper Garabagh, Nizami Bahmanov.
The spokesman for the Azeri Foreign Ministry, Tahir Taghizada, said
the US mediator's visit aims to promote the negotiating process. He
noted that the opportunities for reaching peace have not been
exhausted yet.
`I believe that the key issue is that Bryza will pay his first visit
to the region in the capacity of the Minsk Group co-chair. Our hope
is for the visit to give an impetus to further negotiations,' the
diplomat said.
The OSCE mediators are expected to gather in Paris after Bryza's
visit to discuss future plans.