December 6, 2003 - 17:42 AMT
INTERNATIONAL MEDIATORS ON KARABAKH SETTLEMENT ARRIVING IN YEREVAN TODAY
Co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group for the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement Yuri Merzlyakov (Russia), Anri Jacolen (France), Rudolf Perina (US) as well as co-chairman of the Minsk conference on the Karabakh settlement, first deputy to the Russian minister of foreign affairs Vyacheslav Trubnikov are arriving in Yerevan with a special flight from Baku today. In the course of the visit the mediators will hold meetings with RA President Robert Kocharian (with the participation of Armenian FM Vardan Oskanian) and with defense minister Serge Sargsian. Tomorrow, December 7, the mediators will leave for Stepanakert where they are to meet with the NKR leadership. As V. Oskanian stated in Yerevan earlier, the mediators visit aims at resuming the dialogue between the Armenian and Azeri Presidents and at the exchange of opinions on some ideas referring the conflict resolving.