The OSCE Minsk Groups U.S. Co-chair, Ambassador Matthew Bryza expects an oral agreement between the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan before elections in both states. "There will be no treaty before the elections but we expect an oral agreement," he said at Baku airport.

Bryza also touched upon the parallels drawn between the conflicts in Kosovo and Nagorno Karabakh. "The problems of Kosovo and Karabakh are separate and there is no connection between them," he said, Trend reports.