The foreign ministers of the co-chair states of the OSCE Minsk Group have made a statement on the 20th anniversary of mediating the Nagorno-Karabakh process, urging the conflicting sides to show the political will needed for settling the problem.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe signed the joint statement. They urged the sides to start work on a framework agreement based on the Helsinki principles, non-use of force, territorial unity, equality, the UN Charter and the norms and principles of the international law.
Any prolonging of a resolution of the conflict causes more suffering for people affected by the war.
Presidents Medvedev, Obama and Sarkozy confirmed in a joint statement in Deauville on 24 May 2011 that settling the conflict through negotiations would bring peace, stability and rapprochement.
Progress was made in the joint statements of the presidents in Aquila in 2009, Muskoka in 2010 and Deauville in 2011.
Azerbaijani, Russian and Armenian Presidents Ilham Aliyev, Dmitry Medvedev and Serzh Sargsyan made a joint statement in Sochi on 23 January 2012, confirming their commitment to speeding up the peace process.
