On June 10, Armenian Defense Minister Vigen Sargsyan received the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs, Richard Hoagland, Igor Popov and Stephane Visconti, as well as the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk.

The parties discussed the state of the Karabakh conflict, the situation along the Armenian-Azerbaijani border and the Artsakh-Azerbaijan line of contact, the developments since the last meeting with the Co-Chairs.

The Armenian Defense Minister called the attention of his guests to the recent incident on the frontline and welcomed the targeted response of the international mediators.

As an important guarantee of the productivity of negotiations over the conflict, Vigen Sargsyan emphasized the importance of implementation of investigation mechanisms in accordance to the Vienna and St. Petersburg agreements, and thereby the formation of an atmosphere of mutual trust.