Attempts by Yerevan to Change Format of Peace Negotiations Not Justified - Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry
Baku / 06.03.19 / Turan: The desire of the Prime Minister of Armenia to change the format of the negotiations on the settlement of the Karabakh conflict should be regarded as the destruction of the OSCE Minsk Group and especially the activities of the co-chairs from Russia, the USA and France. This is stated in the comments of the Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan in connection with the last statement of Nikol Pashinyan in Brussels.
"Negotiations are conducted in the format approved by the OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki in 1992. Changing this format without a consensus of OSCE countries is impossible.
According to this decision, the parties to the conflict are Armenia and Azerbaijan, and the Armenian and Azerbaijani communities of Nagorno-Karabakh are the parties concerned," the commentary noted. -02D-
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- 6 March 2019 16:02
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Armenia is not against the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group, but does not consider it appropriate to discuss this issue now. "In the context of peace, we consider it possible to make a decision on the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group. When peace is an established fact, the existence of such a format may raise questions," Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at a press conference today. "The whole question is about the timing, we need to understand how effectively and correctly to turn such topics into a subject of discussion right now," the Armenian Prime Minister added.
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He expressed his willingness to meet with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at the border between the two countries. "A meeting with Ilham Aliyev could take place at the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. I am open to such a format," Pashinyan said at a press conference today. According to Pashinyan, Armenia recently presented another proposal for a peace treaty to Azerbaijan.
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