Pashinyan: OSCE Minsk Group de facto ceased to exist in 2022

YEREVAN, June 12. /ARKA/. The OSCE Minsk Group, formed in 1992 to encourage a peaceful, negotiated resolution of the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh, has been sacralized in Armenia for many years, the country’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Wednesday.

“However, the co-chairs and members of this group have not been interacting with each other, which means that the Minsk Group does not de facto exist,” he said.

Azerbaijan’s leader Ilham Aliyev said on 6 June that Yerevan and Baku should address the OSCE to initiate the dissolution of the Minsk Group, created in 1992 to encourage a peaceful, negotiated resolution of the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh. Aliyev also demanded amendments to the Armenian Constitution, calling it an essential condition for the peace treaty.