OSCE PA SPECIAL ENVOY FOR GEORGIA TRAVELS TO THE CAUCASUS

OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Emeritus Goran Lennmarker will next week visit all three countries, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia, in the South Caucasus. Mr. Lennmarker was recently appointed Special Envoy for Georgia by OSCE PA President Joao Soares and he is also engaged in seeking to solve the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenian regarding Nagorno-Karabakh. Mr. Lennmarker, a member of the Swedish parliament, is tasked to work on supporting the conflict settlement process particularly at the parliamentary level. Next week’s visit is Mr. Lennmarker’s first since the appointment as Special Envoy for Georgia. It starts in Azerbaijan on Monday, moves on to Georgia in the middle of the week, and finishes up in Armenia at the end of the week. The situation in the South Caucasus will be addressed at the OSCE PA Fall Meetings in Toronto, Canada 18 to 21 September, where Mr. Lennmarker will present a report about the situation in Georgia, and where parliamentarians from all OSCE participating States will have a debate on this issue, the director of communications of the OSCE PA informs.

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OSCE PA SPECIAL ENVOY FOR GEORGIA TRAVELS TO THE CAUCASUS
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