BAKU: Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry Expresses Its Attitude To Appoint

AZERBAIJANI FOREIGN MINISTRY EXPRESSES ITS ATTITUDE TO APPOINTMENT OF A NEW OSCE MG U.S. CO-CHAIR

Today.Az
sept 8 2009
Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan is ready to work with the new American co-chair of the
OSCE Minsk Group, Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry’s Spokesman Elkhan
Polukhov said commenting on the U.S.’s recent appointment of a new
mediator in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict resolution.

"Our position on the fair resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
remains the same. The conflict must be solved under country’s
territorial integrity and granting a high status of autonomy to
Nagorno-Karabakh. The talks can be continued only in this direction,"
Polukhov said.

Former U.S. Ambassador to Croatia Robert Bradtke has been appointed
new U.S. Co-Chair of the OSCE MG, the U.S. State Department Bureau
for Europe and Eurasia said.

"The United States attaches great importance to solution of the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and hopes that Bradtke’s appointment as
the ambassador will continue the OSCE MG’s peacekeeping policy and
efforts," the source in the Department of State reported.

Bradtke is a career diplomat including in the sphere of conflicts,
a source said.

Bradtke was engaged in Balkans issues and U.S. relations with NATO
and the OSCE from 2001 to 2004, and like former U.S. co-chair of
the OSCE MG Matthew Bryza has also served as Deputy Assistant to the
U.S. State Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs.