It is understood that the co-Chair made strong representations to the Azerbaijani side following a sharp increase in violence on the line of contact in January.
Kazakh Foreign Minister Erlan Idrissov told Parliament on Monday that the President of Kazakhstan has proposed this new initiative as part of the solution of the Ukraine crisis.
Calls by the South Ossetian leadership for total integration with Russia have so far been snubbed by Moscow, but a far-reaching treaty is expected to be signed this month.
Salber was later quoted by Armenian media as saying that this was his first official meeting with NKR representatives, and he hoped that the dialogue will continue.
In a terse statement the leadership of the OSCE and the Minsk Group co-Chair said that the current military situation constituted a threat to regional stability.
Despite a deteriorating situation around the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict activists in the region are determined to continue their peace-building efforts. At a meeting in Tbilisi the special envoy of the EU to the South Caucasus was there to give his support.
The mediators have few tools at their disposal except diplomatic persistence. We are not yet seeing diplomatic arms twisting, but the handshakes are getting a bit rougher.