On September 9, the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs, Igor Popov (Russia), Robert Bradtke (USA), and Bernard Fassier (France) arrived in Yerevan. The mediators have already met with Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian. The current situation in the Karabakh peace process was the focus at the meeting. The co chairs will also meet Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan.

As NEWS.am reported previously, the mediators had arrived in Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh and held meetings with the leaders of two states. The Co-Chairs, as well as Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk crossed the contact line of NKR-Azerbaijan armed forces. Following the results of the visit, the mediators will issue a joint statement.

Before starting the visit to the South Caucasus, the MG Co-Chairs made a joint statement, urging all parties to respect strictly the cease-fire and to exercise restraint on the ground, to make every effort to foster the spirit of compromise necessary to make progress, to abstain from inflammatory public statements, and to demonstrate the convincing political will to engage in serious dialogue.