Russia replaces its co-chair in OSCE Minsk Group
YEREVAN, July 20. /ARKA/. Russia has replaced its co-chair in the OSCE Minsk Group on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict Igor Popov with Igor Khovaev, it emerged from the co-chairs’ July 29 statement in which they called upon Azerbaijan and Armenia to de-escalate the situation on their border.
Igor Popov served as a Russian co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group on the Karabakh issue since the summer of 2010. There has been no official statement on part of Russia about replacement of its co-chair.
Until September 21, 2020 Igor Khovaev served as the Russian ambassador to the Philippines and concurrently to the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of Palau.
Igor Khovaev was born in 1962. In 1988 he graduated from the international faculty of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations and in the same year entered the diplomatic service. He is fluent in English, French and Vietnamese.
From 1988 to 2004 Khovaev held various positions in the Central Office of the Russian Foreign Ministry and abroad. -0-
