Minsk Group co-chairs from the United States, Russia and France will arrive in Armenia on Friday evening, said spokesman for the Armenian Foreign Ministry Tigran Balayan.

"They are expected to meet with the country's leadership tomorrow", said Balayan.
The regional visit of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs started with Azerbaijan on Friday. The main purpose of the visit is to prepare for the next meeting of the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan Serzh Sargsyan and Ilham Aliyev within the framework of the economic forum in Saint-Petersburg.
The previous meeting between the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan took place in Prague on May 7.
OSCE MG co-chairs on Nagorno Karabakh - Yuri Merzlyakov (Russia), Matthew Bryza (USA) and Bernard Fassier (France)- consider that the meetings of the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan Serzh Sargsyan and Ilham Aliyev will help achieve definite progress on the basic principles of the Karabakh conflict settlement by the end of the year.
/Novosti-Armenia/