U.S. Warns Azerbaijan Over OSCE Office In Yerevan

The OSCE permanent council meets to discuss the latest flare up in violence in Nagorno-Karabakh, in Vienna, April 5, 2016 (Photo: AFP)

VIENNA, Austria (RFE/RL)””The United States warned Azerbaijan on Thursday against forcing the closure of the Yerevan office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

The office has been facing an uncertain future since Baku vetoed recently a further extension of its activities, strongly objecting to a humanitarian demining program implemented by it in Armenia.

The Azerbaijani delegation to the OSCE headquarters in Vienna insisted in a January statement that the program “can strengthen the capacity and skills of relevant Armenian structures”