Co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group from Russia, France and the United States have arrived in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku-based TV channel ANS reported Wednesday.

The group mediates the conflict over Nagorny Karabakh, an enclave inside Azerbaijan with a predominantly ethnic Armenian population.

The channel said Yury Merzlyakov, Bernard Fassier and Robert Bradtke did not comment on the results of their meetings held in the Armenian capital Yerevan where they were prior to their arrival in the Azerbaijani capital, but said their visit to the region had to do with coordinating a meeting between the two former Soviet states' leaders.

Fassier said a joint communique will be compiled and posted on the OSCE website later.

The mediators in the Karabakh conflict — the U.S., Russia and France — reported some important progress in talks between the Azerbaijani and Armenian leaders in Munich late last year, but tensions between the two ex-Soviet republics remain high.

The conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorny Karabakh first erupted in 1988, when the region claimed independence from Azerbaijan to join Armenia.

Over 30,000 people are estimated to have died on both sides between 1988 and 1994, when a ceasefire was agreed. Nagorny Karabakh has remained in Armenian control since then.

BAKU, January 21 (RIA Novosti)