OSCE Chairperson-in-Office meets Minsk Group Co-Chairs to discuss Nagorno-Karabakh mediation efforts
Didier Burkhalter, OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for 2014 and Head of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, speaking at the OSCE Ministerial Council in Kyiv, 6 December 2013. (OSCE/Jonathan Perfect) Photo details
BERN, 14 January 2014 – Today the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter, received the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group - Ambassadors Igor Popov of the Russian Federation, Jacques Faure of France, and James Warlick of the United States of America, and the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk, in Bern.
Burkhalter discussed the co-operation between the Swiss Chairperson-in-Office and the Co-Chairs of the Minsk Group and expressed his appreciation for their mediation efforts.
The Co-Chairs and Ambassador Kasprzyk also met with Yves Rossier, the State Secretary of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.