Wednesday, March 13 2019 20:30

ArmInfo. On March 13, Prime Minister  Nikol Pashinyan received the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Slovak Foreign  Minister Miroslav Lajcak. Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab  Mnatsakanyan and Personal Representative of the OSCE  Chairman-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk also attended the meeting. 

According to the press service of the government, Prime Minister  Pashinyan noted that Armenia attaches importance to the role of the  OSCE in ensuring security in the region, respecting human rights and  promoting sustainable development. He stressed that Armenia is ready  to support the promotion of the priorities of the Slovakia's  chairmanship in the OSCE. 

Nikol Pashinyan expressed hope that active cooperation with the OSCE  will contribute to the effective implementation of the reform program  of the Armenian government and the strengthening of democracy in our  country.At the meeting, the parties touched upon a number of issues  on the OSCE agenda, stressing the need to jointly solve the problems  facing the organization. Prime Minister Pashinyan reaffirmed  Armenia's support for an exclusively peaceful settlement of the  Nagorno-Karabakh conflict within the framework of the OSCE Minsk  Group co-chairmanship and presented the approaches and principled  position of Armenia on this issue. He also touched on the next steps  in the peace process. The parties stressed the importance of creating  an atmosphere conducive to establishing peace, stimulating  people-to-people contacts, taking steps to introduce mechanisms to  reduce risks and prevent incidents, and conduct measures to  strengthen mutual trust.