Commenting on the statement of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs that the time has arrived to finalize and endorse the Basic Principles and move to the drafting of a peace agreement on the Karabakh conflict, Director General of the National Energy Security Fund Konstantin Simonov said that one can agree with the OSCE Minsk Group that, indeed, there are not any reasons for further delays.

Nevertheless, according to Simonov, the OSCE Minsk Group’s activity is basically dictated by the fact that it needs to specify its stance somehow. “Otherwise, a question arises for what the OSCE Minsk Group is needed, if there is no progress in the situation,” he said.

“In my opinion, all these statements of the Co-Chairs are an attempt to justify their functioning, to remind of themselves and works carried out and even to give hope that there will be a breakthrough. However, as far as I recollect there were several promises on breakthrough in the Karabakh conflict settlement. They were made with respect to different information occasions. Unfortunately, despite all promises, there is no progress in the problem resolution. There are not any documents that would at least theoretically allow handling it. And I have no grounds to think that the OSCE Minsk Group’s activity has brought nearer the problem resolution,” Day.az quoted Simonov as saying.