OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs Yuri Merzlyakov (Russia), Bernard Fassier (France) and Robert Bradtke (U.S) arrive in Luxemburg Oct. 25-27 to meet with RA Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan and Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov, OSCE press release reads.

The Co-Chairs will “address plans for their next trip to Baku and Yerevan in November and preparation for discussion of the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement at the OSCE Ministerial Council in December 2009,” the paper says Oct. 23.

According to it, “The OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs attended a ‘Retreat on OSCE Mediation Activities’ hosted October 22-23 by the OSCE Conflict Prevention Center in Vienna, Austria. After the retreat, the Co-Chairs provided a quarterly briefing to the OSCE Minsk Group.

On the margins of the retreat, each Ambassador individually participated in different bilateral meetings with a variety of interlocutors, including, among others, Greek Ambassador Marinaki, representing the OSCE Chairman-in-Office; OSCE Secretary General Perrin de Brichambaut; Armenian Ambassador Hovakimian; Azerbaijani Ambassador Ismayilov; Kazakh Ambassador Abdrakhmanov; Swedish Ambassador Bard-Bringeus, representing the EU presidency; and Turkish Deputy Undersecretary Cevikoz.”