ArmInfo. Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan held talks with the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group - Igor Popov (Russia), Andrew Chauffer (USA) and Stefan Visconti (France), who is in Yerevan on a regional visit.
As ArmInfo was informed in the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia, the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk also participated in the meeting. During the meeting, the parties touched upon the discussions held between the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan in New York, as well as the processes recorded after this meeting. The meeting highlighted the importance of creating an atmosphere conducive to peace and reducing recent tensions at the border.
The parties touched upon the positions of the parties in the peace process, and in this context Mnatsakanyan emphasized the need to ensure proportionality of obligations in the peace process. The interlocutors exchanged views on further steps in the format of co-chairing.
The Armenian Foreign Ministry also recalled that within the framework of the regional visit, Minsk mediators will also hold meetings with the authorities of Artsakh and Azerbaijan.