YEREVAN, MARCH 29, ARMENPRESS. Foreign Minister of Armenia Edward Nalbandian received on March 29 Chairman of the ad hoc sub-committee on conflicts between Council of Europe Member States, PACE Co-rapporteur on Azerbaijan Stefan Schennach, “Armenpress” was informed from the press service of the MFA Armenia.

Minister Nalbandian introduced to the guest the efforts of Armenia and the OSCE Minsk Group Co-chair countries aimed at exclusively peaceful settlement of Nagorno Karabakh conflict. He stressed that Azerbaijan, in contrast to Armenia, regularly denies the proposals of the Co-chair countries aimed at creating favorable conditions for the progress in the negotiations, and refuses to bring into life the agreements reached at the Vienna and St. Petersburg summits, which are about creating mechanisms for the investigation of border incidents and expanding the capacities of the team of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office.

The Armenian Foreign Minister underlined that the settlement process goes on within the format of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairmanship, which is the only internationally authorized body for the settlement of the conflict.

Edward Nalbandian added that the attempts to transfer the discussions on Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement to other platforms or formats, initiating various resolutions in different institutions misrepresenting the reality and efforts to create other parallel mechanisms for settlement hinder the efforts of the Co-chairs to reach a settlement, about which the Co-chairs have warned in different cases. The PACE should take this waning serious as well.