Baku/01.06.21/Turan: Co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group Igor Popov (Russia), Stefan Visconti (France) and Andrew Schaefer (USA) could soon agree on the possibility of a visit to the border of Azerbaijan and Armenia. Said on June 1 st Alexander Lukashevich, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the OSCE, at an online press conference.
“It is very important that the co-chairs manage to get to the region in the near future and determine the situation on the spot, talk with the parties already on the spot,” he said. “This is very important. I think that such opportunities could open up in the very near future,” quotes the diplomat by TASS news agency.
"Plus, of course, there is an acute issue of admission of international humanitarian organizations to help the population. There are also a lot of organizational details, which are interpreted in different ways by the parties," Lukashevich added. -0-
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