The State Department does not consider it essential to preserve the negotiation process within the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group
The State Department does not consider it essential to preserve the negotiation process within the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group
The United States is ready to cooperate with Azerbaijan and Armenia in any format that both countries deem acceptable, the U.S. State Department said, responding to questions about the future of the OSCE Minsk Group and the U.S. position on its role in the peace process.
"The U.S. government supports the efforts of Armenia and Azerbaijan to reach a lasting and dignified peace agreement. We are ready to work with both sides in any format that the parties can agree on and in which they can make progress," a State Department spokesperson said in response to a query from the Armenian service of Voice of America.
The comment comes amid Baku’s refusal to participate in the OSCE Minsk Group, stating that the long-standing Karabakh conflict has been definitively resolved, rendering the group's mediating role obsolete.
Politics
-
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian will hold talks in Moscow on January 17 and make statements for the press, according to the Kremlin's press service.
-
On January 13, the trial in the case of public activist Nijat Ibrahim continued in the Baku Serious Crimes Court under the chairmanship of Judge Aygun Gurbanova. The trial was suspended after Ibrahim, in protest against the illegal arrest, began banging his head against the "aquarium cage", trying to commit suicide. At the beginning of the trial, he stated that he had been illegally detained for 4 months, and because of this, his family in Moldova was in a difficult situation, Turan announced this on its Twitter.
-
The International Committee of Concerned Scholars (ICS) has appealed to the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, requesting his assistance in securing the release of the arrested researcher, Igbal Abilov. The ICS expressed concern that Abilov's arrest "may be related to his research on ethnic minorities in Azerbaijan, conducted in collaboration with scholars from Armenia."
-
Georgia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Maka Botchorishvili, met with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Azerbaijan to Georgia, Faig Guliyev.
Leave a review