Robert Bradtke: Visit of the OSCE Minsk group to Baku is related to the Sochi declaration on Karabakh

The visit of the OSCE Minsk Group including Robert Bradtke (USA), Jacques Faure (France), Igor Popov (Russia) and Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman Andrzej Kasprzyk (Poland) to the region is associated with the implementation of the Sochi declaration proclaimed by Presidents of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Russia, the co-chairman of the US Ambassador Robert Bradtke said, Novosti-Azerbaijan reports.

"We met in Yerevan with Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan. At the end of the week there we meetings in Nagorno-Karabakh," – Bradtke said.

He added that in Baku he will meet with the president of Azerbaijanm Ilham Aliyev, and the Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan, Elmar Mammadyarov.

On January 23, 2012 on the initiative of the President of Russia a trilateral meeting between Presidents of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Russian Federation were held in Sochi. Following the meeting, the conflicting sides (Azerbaijan and Armenia) recognized the need to move away from extreme positions and called for continued efforts on the approximation of their positions.