President Bako Sahakyan on Thursday, June 30 insisted that Karabakh’s participation in the process of the conflict settlement was paramount.

During a meeting with the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Yerevan, Armenia, Sahakyan said that Karabakh remains committed to the peaceful settlement of the conflict within the OSCE Minsk Group format.

Also, Sahakyan stressed the importance of introducing mechanisms for investigating ceasefire violations in the conflict zone, which would foster maintaining peace and stability in the region and exert a constructive influence on the further pace of the negotiation process.

Karabakh foreign minister Karen Mirzoyan, personal representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk and other officials participated in the meeting.