OSCE co-chairs arrive in Azerbaijan
The OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs, brokering peace for long-lasting Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, have visited the region this week as a part of their mandate.
The OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs, brokering peace for long-lasting Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, have visited the region this week as a part of their mandate.
The Minsk Group co-chairs were visiting the region to look for ways of solution to the conflict that emerged 30 years ago due to Armenia's territorial claims to neighboring Azerbaijan.
Over the past 25 years of their mediation activities the co-chairs failed to find any solution, restricting themselves only with declarative statements made after each tour of the region.
However, there are still hopes that the current regional tour of OSCE MG Co-Chairs on the background of recent conversation of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan will bring the second breath to the peaceful negotiation process aimed at the settlement of the conflict, despite all negative trends currently observed in Armenia’s political life.
They are reviewing the current situation in the region, urging the sides to build upon the reduction in tensions that has followed the arrangements reached by the leaders in Dushanbe in September, and discussing ways to intensify the negotiation process and other next steps.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev received the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs Andrew Schofer of the U.S., Igor Popov of Russia, Stephane Visconti of France, as well as Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk on November 1.
The current state and prospects of the negotiations on the settlement of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict were discussed at the meeting.
The mission visited Yerevan on October 29.
The OSCE Minsk Group spearheads the OSCE's efforts to find a peaceful solution to the NagornoKarabakh conflict. It is co-chaired by France, the Russian Federation, and the United States.
Unfortunately, the relevant decisions of OSCE and other international organizations have not been ensured so far, and the activity of the OSCE Minsk Group has not justified the hopes placed in it.
The status quo in the NagornoKarabakh has not changed since the beginning of the OSCE Minsk Group activities on the conflict settlement. The main task of the group is to assist the peaceful settlement of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict and the peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
For nearly a quarter century, the efforts of the OSCE Minsk Group are wasted and bring no results. Unless the inactivity of the Minsk Group and non-constructive position of Armenia stops, the finding of a solution seems to be impossible.