OSCE failed in Nagorno-Karabakh - Russian FM 

ArmInfo.  The OSCE Minsk Group for the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has lost all meaning after the American and French mediators stopped contacting the Russian one. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov expressed a similar opinion in his article "Half a Century of the Helsinki Act: Expectations, Reality, Prospects" published in the Rossiyskaya  Gazeta. 

"The OSCE failed in Nagorno-Karabakh as well. The Minsk Group was  never able to create conditions for dialogue between the conflicting  parties, and after its Western participants withdrew from interaction  with Russia, it completely lost all meaning," Lavrov wrote.

It should be noted that after the violent subjugation of Artsakh,  Azerbaijan began to seek the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group, the  only international format with a mandate to resolve the  Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan  noted that he is not against this step if Azerbaijan does not seek to  use the abolition of the OSCE MG for further aggression against the  Republic of Armenia.  Russia also spoke out in favor of abolishing  this structure, noting that it lost its relevance after February  2022, when the American and French mediators, without explanation,  stopped contacts with the Russian mediator. Independent experts  oppose the closure of the OSCE MG, believing that this will make the  process of Azerbaijan's occupation of Artsakh irreversible.