Azerbaijan Defense Minister Meets with Personal Representative of OSCE Chairperson-in-Office
Baku/02.02.18/Turan: Azerbaijan Defense Minister meets with the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office
Minister of Defense of the Republic of Azerbaijan Colonel General Zakir Hasanov has met with the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk on February 2.
During the meeting, an exchange of views was held on the current situation at the contact line of the troops, the results of the monitoring and the settlement of the conflict.
Recall that after the April escalation in 2016, the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group proposed to expand the office of the Personal Representative. In January, the Russian co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, Igor Popov, announced the decision to increase the number of OSCE observers by 7 people. -06D-
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