Ambassador: France, Russia and U.S. working on long-term agreement on Karabakh
YEREVAN, October 13. /ARKA/. France, together with Russia and the United States (the three co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group) is working on a long-term agreement on Nagorno-Karabakh, the newly appointed French Ambassador to Armenia Anne Luyo said in an interview with Radio Azatutyun.
The Ambassador refrained from providing details, but emphasized the involvement of all three OSCE Minsk Group co-chairing countries in this process.
“You are aware that here, in Armenia, I do not participate in the work of the OSCE Minsk Group. I have a colleague - Stéphane Visconti, who is the French co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group. But I can already tell you that progress has been registered in New York, together with the other co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group. We gladly organized a meeting of the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan (on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly’s session). It may seem a small step, but it was a huge step,” she said.
The diplomat expressed hope that there will be other decisions of this kind and assured that France, together with Russian and American partners, is working to advance the process aimed at concluding a longer-term agreement on Karabakh
To a clarifying question about the activation of the OSCE Minsk Group, Luyo replied that the OSCE Minsk Group had become more active in New York. "We are not alone. I think that Armenia and Azerbaijan should also move forward," she said.
At the end of September- a year after the war in Artsakh - the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs organized a meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan Ararat Mirzoyan and Jeyhun Bayramov in New York. Also, separate meetings of the mediators were held with Mirzoyan and Bayramov.
In a statement released after these meetings, the co-chairs reaffirmed their commitment to continue working with the parties in accordance with their mandate to find comprehensive solutions to all other issues related to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. -0--