Azerbaijan wants to study the procedure of changing the countries and persons of Minsk Group Co-Chairs

“Azerbaijan has sent a letter to OSCE Secretariat to study the procedure of changing the countries and persons of Minsk Group Co-Chairs”, Deputy Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Araz Azimov made such a statement.

APA reports quoting “ATV”.

According to A.Azimov, the MG Co-Chairs were appointed in Budapest Summit in 1994 and their functions are clear: “Changing of mediators as a person is realized by the will of one side. For instance, The United States replaced his representative Steven Mann with Matthew Bryza. Official Baku is concerned about the issue that if Matthew Bryza takes any step dissatisfying Azerbaijan, what and how will Azerbaijan act in this case?”

According to A.Azimov, Azerbaijan is not in favor of changing the format of the Minsk Group. “On the other hand, the co-chairs have not represented the Minsk Group as a whole. They have represented themselves in the discussions conducted with Azerbaijan and Armenia”, said A.Azimov.

He stated that Azerbaijan continued the cooperation with the co-chair countries, but at the same time Azerbaijan had sent a letter to OSCE Secretariat to study the procedure of changing the countries and persons of Minsk Group Co-Chairs.

“We simply want to know how to do this in case of necessity, because Azerbaijan is also a member of the Minsk Group like the US, Russia and France”, he said.