Azerbaijan, Baku / Тrend corr S. Aghayeva / The Russian Secretary of State, and Deputy Foreign Minister Grigoriy Karasin and the Co-Chairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group on the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Yuri Merzlakov (Russia), Bernard Facie (France), and Mathew Bryza (United States), as well as the OSCE Chairman-in-Office's Personal Representative on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Andrzej Kasprzyk (Poland) held subject consultations in Moscow on 1 August.
According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, the current issues on the activities of the OSCE Minsk Group's Co-Chairmen regarding settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, as well as the direction of OSCE's further efforts in the settlement of the conflict, were discussed at the meeting.
Before the meeting, the intermediaries had met with another Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, Alexander Grushko.