«Statements of the Armenian party on the need to join Karabakh to talks between Armenia and Azerbaijan are groundless,» OSCE MG French Co-Chair Bernard Fassier said in Baku. «Talks proceed in the current format and change of format is out of question,» he underscored.

The French mediator also denied the opinion the Nagorno Karabakh talks have no prospects. «We travel too much and our governments are not so rich to waste money on our trips,» Fassier believes, Day.az reports.