New OSCE MG Co-Chair Appointed On Karabakh Issue

NEW OSCE MG CO-CHAIR APPOINTED ON KARABAKH ISSUE

Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am
sept 8 2009
Armenia

Robert Bradtke has been appointed a new OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair on
Karabakh settlement.

"The Secretary is pleased to announce the appointment of Ambassador
Robert Bradtke as the next U.S. OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair," the
statement of U.S. Department of State Spokesman Ian Kelly reads.

Bradtke entered U.S. diplomacy in 1973. In July, 2009 he accomplished
his term as U.S. Ambassador to Croatia. Prior to that, he served from
2001 to 2004 as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and
Eurasian Affairs, with responsibility for NATO and OSCE. In 1983 he
worked in U.S. Embassy in Moscow.

As NEWS.am informed earlier, Matthew Bryza, former U.S. Co-Chair
of OSCE MG is expected to assume the post of the U.S. Ambassador
to Azerbaijan.