Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has raised the need to officially abolish the OSCE Minsk Group, which was established to help negotiate a peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

Aliyev discussed the matter with the chairman-in-office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Foreign Minister of Malta Ian Borg on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference.

The President of Azerbaijan noted the importance of the official abolition of a number of mechanisms within the OSCE that he described as “relics of the past”, including the OSCE Minsk Group, the High-Level Planning Committee and the institution of the personal representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office.

The Azerbaijani President also claimed that the Karabakh conflict has already been resolved.

Azerbaijan’s blockade of and aggression against Karabakh led to the forced deportation of the entire indigenous population to Armenia in the fall of 2023.