PC Head: Minsk Group saves itself

ArmInfo. The latest appeal of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs is quite logically addressed to Azerbaijan. This conviction is due to the statement made by Armenia  immediately after the autumn war on the need for steps and actions of  the OSCE Minsk Group towards a final settlement of the conflict.

The chairman of the Public Council of Armenia Stepan Safaryan expressed a  similar opinion to ArmInfo.

On April 14, the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs issued a statement in  which they gave their assessment of the situation in the region and  voiced several appeals to the parties to the Nagorno - Karabakh  conflict.  "Yerevan has officially stated that the conflict is not  resolved, since its military solution cannot be considered a  solution. Accordingly, discussions on the status of Artsakh and other  related issues should continue. In the light of the formation of such  an agenda by official Yerevan, the content of the latest statement of  the co-chairs simply cannot concern Armenia by definition, " he said.

At the same time, according to Safaryan, today the Minsk Group as  such does not exist, in light of which, with their statement, the  co-chairs are primarily trying to save, in fact, the Minsk format. In  his opinion, it is premature to assess the degree of compliance of  this trend with the Armenian interests. At the same time, the  prospect of the final collapse of the MG, according to his forecasts,  will lead to the creation of a regional format for discussing  problems. For example, the 3+3 format proposed by Ankara, and  reformulated in its own way by Tehran.

Thus, it is the prospect of filling the vacuum that is inevitable in  the event of a withdrawal from the OSCE Minsk Group arena with a new  format that does not yet exist that encourages the co-chairs,  according to Safaryan, to save it. Save yourself, but not the  situation around Artsakh, especially Armenia. Since the behavior of  the MG during the 44 days of the war demonstrated that its statements  do not particularly concern anyone. After that, the resulting  situation led to the stopping of the war in fact by Russia.  Armenian  Foreign Minister Ara Ayvazyan described the statement of the OSCE  Minsk Group as a call to Azerbaijan to abandon the destructive policy  that will hinder the dialogue between the countries. "The Co-Chairs  once again reminded Azerbaijan of the need to implement all the  points of the trilateral statement, including the return of prisoners  of war. Yerevan has never refused a dialogue with Baku and is ready  to make efforts for the final resolution of the conflict, which is  possible only if the status of Artsakh is determined on the basis of  the realization of the right to self-determination, " the Minister  said.