OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs’ statement shows Dushanbe arrangements not acting: expert

The statement of the OSCE Minsk Group testifies that the Dushanbe arrangements are not acting anymore and new mechanisms are necessary, director of Hayatsk think tank Anna Karapetyan told Aysor.am.

“In their statement the mediators stress that they positively assess the efforts to reduce the violence and express regret over the losses on the border,” she said, adding that in fact the mediators registered that the Dushanbe arrangements are not acting and new mechanisms are necessary.

“This may be an opportunity for the Armenian authorities to correct the omission and return the Vienna and St. Petersburg arrangements on the table of negotiations,” the expert stressed.

She draw special attention on the circumstance that this is already the third statement of the co-chairs which stresses the necessity of “substantive negotiations.”

“It is enough to say that fixing substantive negotiation format is the wish of the Azerbaijani side through which Baku wants to delay the regulation of the issue on Artsakh status for indefinite period instead regulate issues it prioritizes,” the expert stressed, adding that mentioning this formulation for already third time testifies about some changes of perceptions.

“The statement also stresses the inadmissibility of military rhetoric and statements projecting the results of the negotiations. Unfortunately, today it refers both Armenia and Azerbaijan while previously it was always clear that the addressee was Azerbaijan,” Karapetyan said.

Summing up, the expert noted that both the statements of the two foreign ministers and OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs testify that the meeting has registered neither any result nor any progress in the regulation of humanitarian issues.