On June 10, Armenia’s Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian received the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs who are in Armenia as part of a regional visit.

The meeting with Ambassadors Richard Hoagland (US), Stephane Visconti (France) and Igor Popov (Russia) and Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk focused on the situation along the Line of Contact between Nagorno-Karbakh and Azerbaijani armed forces.

Mr Nalbandian called the mediators’ attention to the fact that an agreement was reached during the meeting of Armenian, Russian and Azerbaijani FMs in Moscow in April in the presence of the mediators regarding a similar press release, which was published by the foreign ministries of Armenia and Russia. However, the Azerbaijani foreign ministry, as always, not only failed to implement the agreement, but also made an absurd statement alleging that during the Moscow meeting the foreign ministers didn’t highlight the implementation of the agreements reached in Vienna and St. Petersburg summits in 2016, rather, the negotiations of the summits were discussed during the meeting.

The Armenian FM stressed that the May 18 statement of the Co-Chairs was not the fist targeted statement, Azerbaijan continues to ignore the urges and calls of the Co-­Chairs, moreover it does the opposite. Edward Nalbandian added that a situation is maturing when the Co-Chairs should not only make statements, but also take specific actions to curb this destructive and provocative policy of Azerbaijan.