“Robert Bradtke’s appointment as U.S. OSCE MG Co-Chair proves the point the U.S. makes of Karabakh peace process,” Head of Foreign Relations Committee of Armenian National Congress Vladimir Karapetyan told NEWS.am.

According to him, Bradtke is an experienced diplomat with an extensive expertise in crisis management. “His previous service was in a crisis spot. The problem he will be hereafter focused on is similar to what he did before. The fact that former U.S. Ambassador assumed a post of the OSCE MG U.S. Co-Chair proves the intensity of the current U.S. administration attitude to the issue,” Karapetyan stated.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appointed Sept. 7 Robert Bradtke as OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair following Matthew Bryza. Formerly, he was a U.S. Ambassador to Croatia, in 2001-2004 served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, with responsibility for NATO and OSCE. In 1983 he worked at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.