OSCE MG Co-Chairs have common approach to Karabakh problem

OSCE MG Co-Chairs have common approach to Karabakh problem

PanARMENIAN.Net - The OSCE Minsk Group co-chairing countries have a common approach to Karabakh problem, according to OSCE MG French Co-Chair, Ambassador Bernard Fassier

“The co-chairing countries may have various positions on other issues but they are unanimous on Karabakh,” he said during the 73rd NATO PA Rose Roth seminar in Yerevan on Friday.

Asked about Russia's parallel diplomacy aimed at resolution of the conflict, Ambassador Fassier said that Moscow “makes its contribution in the framework of proposals developed by the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group.

The OSCE Minsk Group

The OSCE Minsk Group was created in 1992 to encourage a peaceful, negotiated resolution to the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. The Minsk Group is headed by a Co-Chairmanship consisting of France, Russia and the United States. The main objectives of the Minsk Process are as follows: Providing an appropriate framework for conflict resolution in the way of assuring the negotiation process supported by the Minsk Group; Obtaining conclusion by the Parties of an agreement on the cessation of the armed conflict in order to permit the convening of the Minsk Conference; Promoting the peace process by deploying OSCE multinational peacekeeping forces.

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