15:27, 13 April 2023
YEREVAN, APRIL 13, ARMENPRESS. Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan told the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Foreign Minister of North Macedonia Bujar Osmani that he is visiting Armenia in a difficult period of time for the country when it is facing threats and challenges that are directly related to the OSCE ‘s fundamental principles and mandate, regional security and stability.
“The visit by the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office to Armenia is a good opportunity to discuss the existing issues in the region, to emphasize the OSCE’s role and possibility of involvement, prospects of our future cooperation with the organization,” Mirzoyan said at a joint press conference with Osmani in Yerevan, Armenia.
FM Mirzoyan said that Armenia is constantly providing the OSCE partners with reliable information on the security situation in the region and developments on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border and around Nagorno Karabakh.
“During our meeting today we discussed the latest developments of the situation, I presented my colleague the consequences of Azerbaijan’s aggression and attacks, occupation of sovereign territory of Armenia since May of 2021, as well as the Azerbaijani provocation and aggressive actions in the area of Tegh village in Syunik province on April 11, a day before the visit,” the Armenian FM said, adding that Azerbaijan’s aggressive actions constitute gross violations of the OSCE values and a number of fundamental principles of the Helsinki Final Act.
In this context the Armenian FM attached importance to the deployment of the OSCE fact-finding mission to Armenia that took place immediately after the 2022 September aggression, which enabled OSCE monitors to see the Azerbaijani military aggression and its humanitarian consequences on the ground. The Armenian Foreign Minister said that the mission’s observations and the final report must be accessible for all member-states, as well as for other representatives of the international community, as a source of objective information on the situation resulting from the Azerbaijani aggression.