Newly-appointed US Co-Chair of Minsk Group to visit Stepanakert

James Warlick, the newly-appointed U.S. Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, will visit Stepanakert within the next few days, Aysor.am was informed by the NKR President’s spokesman David Babayan. He said that during the visit, Warlick will meet with President of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic Bako Sahakian.

It is J. Warlick’s first regional trip after he was appointed Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group. Yesterday Warlick met with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Baku and conveyed President Obama’s message to him. The U.S. Co-Chair will travel from Baku to Yerevan where he will meet with Armenia’s leadership, then he will visit Nagorno Karabakh.

Prior to his appointment as U.S. Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, James Warlick served as the U.S. Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan and lead negotiator for the Bilateral Security Agreement with Afghanistan. He served as Ambassador to Bulgaria from 2009-2012, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of International Organization Affairs from 2006 to 2009, and Director of the Office of European Security and Political Affairs from 2005 to 2006.