Posts Tagged ‘OSCE’
French Senate adopts genocide bill
The French Senate adopted bill criminalizing the Armenian Genocide denial after long debates on Monday. President of France will ratify the law in 15 days after receiving the finally adopted law from the government. He can ask the parliament to review the full law or certain articles. The review [...]
Now is time to demonstrate the political will in Karabakh conflict resolution – international mediators
Now is the time to demonstrate the political will in Karabakh conflict resolution, reads the statement released on Monday by the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group on Nagorno-Karabakh, Bernard Fassier of France, Robert Bradtke of the U. S., and Igor Popov of the Russia. The co-chairs traveled on [...]
OSCE to monitor line of contact between Karabakh and Azerbaijani armed forces
The OSCE mission will hold a regular monitoring on Tuesday in the line of contact between Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijani armed forces, NKR foreign office’s press-service informed. On the part of Azerbaijan the monitoring will be conducted by field assistants of the Personal Representative of [...]
OSCE monitoring Nagorno-Karabakh truce
BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 24 (UPI) -- European officials arrived Monday to survey a cease-fire along the Azeri border with Armenia following elections in a breakaway region, Azeri officials said. The Azerbaijan Defense Ministry said a monitoring group from the Organization for Security and [...]
On Turkey’s unheard knock at OSCE MG door
The Azerbaijani authorities keep on knocking at the OSCE Minsk Group’s door, doing so on behalf of their “big brother,” Turkey, which has been dreaming of playing a key role in the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process. But the attempts of Baku and Ankara have so far failed. What is the matter? [...]
PACE iced out Azeri delegation regular screams
Speeches of Azerbaijani delegation at the PACE session did not impress the attendees. In the course of April 26 spring session Azerbaijani delegation members addressed Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland questions “connected with continuous occupation if Azerbaijani lands” by [...]
Armenia might agree to Nazarbayev’s mediation in Karabakh conflict
Armenian side may accept OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Kazakh Secretary of State Foreign Minister Kanat Saudabayev’s proposal for the meeting with Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, diplomatic sources informed. However Yerevan will agree on Nazarbayev’s mediation if NKR President Bako [...]
If preconditions available, why Turkey failed to ratify Protocols?
Turkey’s joining to OSCE Minsk Group as a Co-Chair is ruled out. This was repeatedly stated by the RA President Serzh Sargsyan and Foreign Minister, RA FM said in the interview with Armenian Public Television. Commenting on the remark that there are pre-conditions in Armenia-Turkey Protocols, [...]
Armenian oppositionist notified OSCE PA of Protocols’ unacceptability
Today, April 23, Heritage party head Armen Martirosyan had a meeting with OSCE PA Italian delegation head Riccardo Migliori. Officials discussed Armenia’s foreign policy issues, recent developments in Armenia-Turkey relations, Nagorno-Karabakh issue and Armenia-EU cooperation [...]
If Turkey miscalculated, it’s their affair: Nalbandian
Sargsyan-Erdogan meeting in Washington offered an opportunity for Armenian side to have coherent idea of Ankara’s stance on rapprochement and reassure Yerevan’s accurate estimates. “We are now more confident in expediency of our further steps and approaches. Whenever the President sees fit, [...]