OSCE Chairperson-in-Office highlights positive momentum in Armenia-Azerbaijan peace process
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Finnish Minister of Foreign Affairs Elina Valtonen, the current Chairperson-in-Office of the OSCE, highlighted the positive momentum in the Armenia–Azerbaijan peace process.
“In the South Caucasus, I have witnessed positive momentum in the peace process between Armenia and Azerbaijan,” she said at the 32nd OSCE Ministerial Council meeting in Vienna. “In August, we reached consensus on closing all structures of the Minsk Group that dealt with the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict resolution.”
She said that closing the Minsk Group and its structures also helped remove the main obstacle to adopting the OSCE budget.
Armenia and Azerbaijan, during the peace summit on 8 August in Washington brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump, jointly appealed to the OSCE to disband the Minsk Group, which was established in the 1990s with the stated mission of finding a resolution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
On 1 December, the OSCE announced that it had finalised the closure of the Minsk Process.