The three co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group are working very intensively and consistently, and the question of replacing France in the OSCE with an EU mandate is not on agenda today, Russia 24 quoted Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich as saying on Tuesday, Trend reports.
"The three co-chairs work very constructively, and in recent years, in addition to the intensity of contacts, the volume of documents that are coordinated at various levels, including the highest, has increased," Lukashevich said.
He said the last example is a statement by the Foreign Ministers of the Minsk Group co-chairs in support of efforts to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, indicating that there is room for manoeuvre and any impact on the parties to the conflict.
In connection with the 20th anniversary of the official request for mediation in the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the OSCE Minsk Group called on the conflicting parties to show the political will necessary to achieve a lasting and peaceful settlement, the joint statement on March 22 by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe reads.
Lukashevic said there is a need that MG implements the signal of the sides of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, which was made in a meeting with the Russian President in Sochi in January, where Baku and Yerevan announced that they are ready to accelerate work on the basic principles of the settlement.
"Probably, these signals indicate that the format of the Minsk Group established itself and the potential is not exhausted," Lukashevich said.
