KYIV. April 10 (Interfax) - Special Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Ambassador Andriy Deschytsia will visit the South Caucasus shortly to evaluate regional security.
"The Ukrainian chair of the OSCE is continuing energetic work towards consolidation of international efforts to assist in the settlement of protracted conflicts on OSCE space," acting Director of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Information Policy Department Yevhen Perebiynis told a press briefing on Tuesday.
Therefore, the special representative of the OSCE chairman-in-office will make working trips to the South Caucasus: he will visit Azerbaijan on April 14-15, Georgia on April 15-16, and Armenia on April 16-17.
The envoy will negotiate with officials in Baku and Yerevan and Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office on the conflict dealt with by the OSCE Minsk Conference Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk. The meetings aim to study the regional situation and discuss the next steps of the Ukrainian chair of the OSCE towards settling the Karabakh conflict.
Also, there will be a trip to Georgian villages on the border with South Ossetia that currently provoke security concerns of Georgia and South Ossetia.
Ukraine is the Chair-in-Office for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.