Joao Soares will visit the region as OSCE PA President’s Special Representative for South Caucasus in September 2011.

Results of Joao Soares’s visit to the region will help him prepare a report on Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement.

The Honorary Chairman of OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Portuguese parliamentarian Joao Soares was appointed to the post of OSCE PA President’s Special Representative in South Caucasus on Sunday.

As the head of the Armenian delegation to OSCE PA, Aram Safaryan told a news conference on July 8, “Today, OSCE PA President Petros Efthymiou met with Armenian and Azerbaijani delegates to coordinate the candidature of OSCE PA President’s Special Representative in South Caucasus. Mr. Soares, well known both in Armenia and Azerbaijan was chosen to fill the vacant position.”

Goran Lenmarker completed his mission as OSCE PA President’s Special Representative for Nagorno Karabakh and Georgia last year, when he was not re-elected at Parliamentary elections in Sweden in Sept. 2010.