The OSCE Minsk group co-chairmen will probably visit the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict region in May, the Russian co-chairman of the OSCE Minsk group, Yuri Merzlyakov told Trend.
A Russian co-chairman, Bernard Fasie will soon visit the region, he added. Besides, the Armenian foreign minister, V. Oskanyan is expected to visit Moscow in April and his Azerbaijani counter-part Washington. The current stage of the peaceful negotiations and future steps will be discussed in the course of these visits.
The negotiating process will continue after the mediators consultations in Washington and Istanbul. The further steps and the exact dates of the co-chairmen arrival to the region will be defined after the meetings end, he said, adding that not all sides will be available to make a visit to the region in the second part of April.
Merzlyakov has also stated that he did not participate in the recent consultations, including the one in Istanbul on March 20.