OSCE chair due on visit
The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Greek Foreign Minister
Dora Bakoyannis, will visit Azerbaijan on Wednesday, the OSCE
office in Baku has announced.
During the two-day visit, Bakoyannis will meet with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov and Parliament Speaker Ogtay Asadov. The Greek minister will also hold meetings with opposition leaders. The OSCE chairman will leave Azerbaijan for Armenia after discussions in Baku.
Bakoyannis told Russia`s ITAR-TASS news agency that the ongoing conflicts over Upper (Nagorno) Garabagh and Dnestr in Moldova are not in anyone`s interests. She said that Greece, which chairs the OSCE, believed it was impossible to settle the `frozen conflicts` through war and that a peaceful solution to the conflicts remains the only alternative.
During the two-day visit, Bakoyannis will meet with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov and Parliament Speaker Ogtay Asadov. The Greek minister will also hold meetings with opposition leaders. The OSCE chairman will leave Azerbaijan for Armenia after discussions in Baku.
Bakoyannis told Russia`s ITAR-TASS news agency that the ongoing conflicts over Upper (Nagorno) Garabagh and Dnestr in Moldova are not in anyone`s interests. She said that Greece, which chairs the OSCE, believed it was impossible to settle the `frozen conflicts` through war and that a peaceful solution to the conflicts remains the only alternative.
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