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12 August 2009 - 14:48 AMT

NKR: Appointment of Tina S. Kaidanow as OSCE Minsk Group co-chair bodes ill

Ther has not been official confirmation of the appointment of Tina S. Kaidanow to the position of OSCE Minsk Group co-chair from U.S. so far, but a change of the co-chair will not affect the the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict at all,” Vaghram Atanesyan , chairman of the Standing Committee for Foreign Relations of NKR NA told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.

According to him, the appointment to this position a person who served in Kosovo and other hot spots, cannot promise anything good and has some implications.

OSCE Minsk Group co-chair Matthew Bryza declared on August 10 in Tbilisi, that U.S. diplomat Tina S. Kaidanow, will assume the office of Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, replacing him.

Successor of Bryza, Tina S. Kaidanow has worked for U.S. diplomatic mission in Kosovo for two years, then she assumed the office of the US ambassador in Kosovo. Earlier she worked as Deputy Chief of U.S. mission in Sarajevo for three years.