Senior Armenian diplomat says position of OSCE Minsk Group co-Chairmen was "changing slowly but firmly"

The OSCE Minsk Group is changing its position slowly, but firmly, Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Shavarsh Кocharyan told reporters in the Armenian parliament on Monday (29 May). In the latest statement of the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group (Russia, France, the US), it was specifically mentioned for the first time about the May 16-17 ceasefire violation by the Azerbaijani side, news.am reported.

You can read the statement of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chair here

"Changes in behavior of political actors such as permanent members of the UN Security Council, require time. They are slow, but this slowness is a serious danger for a country that goes against rules of the game," Kocharyan said.

Commenting on the recent statement of the OSCE Minsk Group Russian Co-Chair Igor Popov about the need to increase the number of OSCE observers from, the Deputy Foreign Minister recalled that the parties agreed about it at the summits in Vienna and St. Petersburg in 2016.

"Of course, it is difficult to claim that observers can completely exclude incidents, but the more observers are deployed, the higher the deterrence," Shavarsh Kocharyan added.

source; commonspace.eu with news.am

photo: Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Shavarsh Kocharyan (archive picture)

 

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