Robert Bradtke has been appointed a new OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair on Karabakh settlement.

“The Secretary is pleased to announce the appointment of Ambassador Robert Bradtke as the next U.S. OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair,” the statement of U.S. Department of State Spokesman Ian Kelly reads.

Bradtke entered U.S. diplomacy in 1973. In July, 2009 he accomplished his term as U.S. Ambassador to Croatia. Prior to that, he served from 2001 to 2004 as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, with responsibility for NATO and OSCE. In 1983 he worked in U.S. Embassy in Moscow.

As NEWS.am informed earlier, Matthew Bryza, former U.S. Co-Chair of OSCE MG is expected to assume the post of the U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan.