MOSCOW. June 23 (Interfax) - Frank-Walter Steinmeier, foreign minister of Germany and chairperson-in-office of the OSCE, plans to visit the Nagorno-Karabakh region, the OSCE press service said.
Steinmeier met with the Russian and French co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group on Nagorno-Karabakh Igor Popov and Pierre Andrieu, and also his personal representative Andrzej Kasprzyk in Berlin on Thursday.
The purpose of the meeting was coordination of possible further steps aimed at resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, including with a view of the upcoming visit to the region by Steinmeier, the OSCE press service said.
The co-chairs informed the OSCE chairperson-in-office about the outcomes of the June 20 meeting in St. Petersburg between the presidents of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan and on the agreement to increase the number of international observers in the conflict area for the purpose of stabilizing the situation there and creating favorable conditions encouraging the peace process that was reached.
Steinmeier welcomed the recent progress in maintaining the ceasefire, the report said.
The OSCE chairperson-in-office also backed the efforts of the Minks group and said he will continue to actively work on resolving this conflict.