ArmInfo.It is the Western countries themselves, led by the United States, that undermined the efforts for an Armenian-Azerbaijani settlement. This was stated on February 17 during a weekly briefing by Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, in response to a request to comment on accusations by the US State Department that Moscow is undermining peace efforts in the South Caucasus.
In this vein, she accused the West of substituting reality. In this vein, Zakharova recalled that the format of the OSCE Minsk Group was sent to the dustbin of history after the American and French co-chairs, under a far-fetched pretext, in February 2022 stopped contacts with their Russian counterpart.
< It's a fact. Moreover, there were no clear explanations for such actions from them. Based on this consideration, we focused on providing assistance to Yerevan and Baku within the framework of trilateral formats, based on top-level agreements, which we have repeatedly spoken about and this explains everything>, the Russian diplomat noted.
As for the US mediation, continued Zakharova, we do not see that it is combined with real steps and has any additional value