EU: Recent Exchanges on Karabakh Send a Positive Signal for Progress

• 01.19.2019, 13:02
•  Europe,  World,  Armenia,  NKR

The Verge

The European Union continues to fully support the mediation efforts and proposals of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs, says the statement by the spokesperson for EU External Action.

“Exchanges in recent months between the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan, and the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, as well as meetings of the Foreign Ministers under the auspices of the Co-Chairs of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Minsk Group, most recently in Paris on 16 January 2019, send a positive signal for progress in the peaceful settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.

The European Union continues to fully support the mediation efforts and proposals of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs, including through the EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the crisis in Georgia, as well as through civil society confidence-building measures across the conflict divide. All would stand to benefit from lasting peace, which would help to enable the South Caucasus region to fulfil its potential,” the statement reads.