COPENHAGEN, 23 February 2010 – A high-level delegation from the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA), led by President Joao Soares and the Special Representative on Nagorno-Karabakh and Georgia, President Emeritus Goran Lennmarker, will visit all three countries in the Caucasus next month.

The visit will take place from 9 to 16 March. It will begin in Georgia, 9 and 10 March, continue to Armenia from 10 to 13 March, before ending in Azerbaijan 13 to 16 March.

The visit is President Soares’s first official visit to the region as President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly. The talks in the three countries will focus on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and on the situation after the war between Georgia and Russia.

Contact:

Klas Bergman, Director of Communications, OSCE PA

Tel. +45 33378040; Mob. +45 60108380; Email: [email protected]