The OSCE Chairman-in-Office wants to personally familiarize himself with official Baku's stand on Nagorno Karabakh. "Azerbaijan is a very interesting country for me and I would like to hear its stance on the Karabakh issue," Mr Ilkka Kanerva told reporters in Baku airport.

As to engagement of the Nagorno Karabakh's Armenian and Azeri communities into the negotiation process, the OSCE CiO said it was in focus of his talks in Yerevan.

He also said he intends to consider the issue in a wider format than the OSCE Minsk Group, Trend Azeri news agency reports.