Washington/28.06.22/Turan: "Andrew Schofer completed his assignment and the U.S. OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair is now Laura Hochla," a State Department spokesperson told TURAN's Washington correspondent on Tuesday.
"Ms. Hochla traveled to Brussels on June 21 for meetings with her EU and French counterparts on forging a lasting, sustainable peace for Armenia and Azerbaijan, and spoke by phone on June 27 with the French Minsk Group Co-Chair and the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chair-in-Office," a spokesperson noted.
Earlier, the State Department tweeted that the U.S. OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair spoke with her counterparts to discuss the future of Nagorno-Karabakh. "It's unfortunate the Russian Co-Chair did not accept the invitation.” the Department said via its Europe and Eurasia division Twitter account.
Laura Hochla has been serving as the State Department's Director of Office of Caucasus Affairs and Regional Conflicts since 2022. Previously, she served as the Director for European Affairs at the White House National Security Council.
She is a career diplomat who previously held the positions of Deputy Economic Counselor at U.S. Embassy Madrid, (2017-2020) Internal Political Chief at U.S. Embassy Tbilisi, (2014-2017) etc.
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Washington D.C.
Politics
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Voting in the early elections to the Milli Majlis of Azerbaijan began at 8:00. Voting is taking place at 6,478 polling stations throughout Azerbaijan, including the lands liberated from occupation. 990 candidates are competing for 125 seats in the unicameral parliament.
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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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On August 31, Azerbaijan observes a "day of silence" before the Sunday’s early parliamentary elections for the unicameral Milli Majlis. All electoral campaigning is prohibited 24 hours before the voting. The early elections were initiated by the ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party. This decision was motivated by the overlap of the scheduled elections in November with the global UN forum - the COP20 climate conference taking place in Baku.
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