... the Caspian Sea without the equipment being able to be used in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
The Approach of the Members of the OSCE Minsk Group (Russia, USA, France)
Leonid Nersisyan:
Can the South Caucasus Conflicts Escalate into a Regional War?
Russia ... ... Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) with Yerevan that ensures military intervention by Moscow in the event of an attack on Armenian territory. Trade agreements, participation in the Eurasian Economic Union, the CSTO does not apply to Nagorno-Karabakh ...
... international body at the helm of the Nagorno Karabakh peace process.
This was the first meeting between the Presidents since 2014 and although no written agreement was produced it does mark an important milestone and a new stage in the politics of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict. In a statement published after the talks, the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs (Russia, US and France), represented by their respective foreign ministers, stated that the ceasefire regime must be respected and that there is no military solution to the conflict. It was also agreed that the next round of ...
... the sides to agree upon the Basic Principles consistently
advertised by the mediators
for a few years.
While shepherds are still continuing to
discover parts of Smerch and Grad rockets
in the Nagorno Karabakh battlefields, the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan scheduled separate meetings in Brussels and Paris on May 31 and June 2 with the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group - the international mediators charged to actually shepherd the sides to a negotiated settlement. These gentlemen are now working to prepare “substantial negotiations”, to quote Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, between ...
... at immediately after reaching a verbal agreement on a ceasefire (Moscow, April 5, 2016) by the chiefs of the General Staff of Armenia and Azerbaijan, with their Russian colleague acting as a mediator, are unlikely to be regarded as such political accomplishments.... ... on preserving the existing format of negotiations and agreements on Nagorno-Karabakh is shared by the other co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, namely the United States and France. This gives grounds to suggest that, in contrast to Baku, international ...
