Azerbaijan Tries to Hinder Efforts of Armenia, Co-Chairs says Foreign Minister

Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian during an annual press conference on Jan. 31, 2017 (Photo: Photolure)

YEREVAN (Panorama)””Changes of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs are unlikely to bring serious impact on the mediation efforts, since the Co-Chairs are representing the position of their states, Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian stated at the annual press conference on the activities of the Foreign Ministry in 2016. According to the Nalbandian, efforts by the Co-Chairs and Armenia are aimed at establishing respective conditions to push forward the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement process.

Nalbandian said that Azerbaijan is trying to hinder Armenia’s and the Co-Chairs’ efforts, calling into question the arrangements reached during the Vienna and St. Petersburg Summits, or misstating them to a degree the co-chairs called it distortion.

“The Co-Chairing states are repeatedly calling for compliance with the ceasefire regime, implementing in the shortest possible time the proposals of establishing an OSCE investigative mechanism and the expansion of the team of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office,”