OSCE Office in Yerevan to Be Closed

• 05.05.2017, 10:54
•  World,  Armenia

Deutschland.de

The OSCE office in Yerevan will be closed in the upcoming months. The office has faced an uncertain future since Baku vetoed late last year a further extension of its mandate, objecting to a humanitarian demining program implemented by it in Armenia, Azatutyun.am reports.

"The United States regrets the impending closure of the OSCE Office in Yerevan," Kate Byrnes, the charge d’affaires of the U.S. mission to the OSCE, said at the meeting. "We lament the loss of the last OSCE field operation in the South Caucasus."

"Armenia, in the spirit of compromise, agreed that the Office in Yerevan would end these [humanitarian demining] activities," she stressed.