Warlick says to step down as OSCE MG co-chair

By  Trend

The United States will change its OSCE Minsk Group (MG) co-chair, who was engaged in the settlement of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

The current American co-chair, James Warlick, tweeted about it on November 21. “I will step down as OSCE Co-Chair on December 31,” Warlick tweeted.

Recently, France has changed its OSCE Minsk Group co-chair. The newly appointed co-chair Stephane Visconti assumed the office on November 3.  Pierre Andrieu has held the position since June 2014.

The OSCE Minsk Group, the activities of which have become known as the Minsk Process, works to find a peaceful solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict for over two decades, but in vain.

Azerbaijan and Armenia for over two decades have been locked in conflict, which emerged over Armenian territorial claims. Since the 1990s war, Armenian armed forces have occupied over 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent regions. The UN Security Council has adopted four resolutions on Armenian withdrawal, but they have not been enforced to this day.