The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis met the Co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group: ambassador Bernard Fassier of France, Robert Bradtke of the United States, and Igor Popov of the Russian Federation accompanied by ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk, the Personal Representative of the Chairperson-in-Office.

Ažubalis voiced support for the efforts by the Co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group to achieve a breakthrough at the negotiations on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, and called for more civil society involvement in the implementation of confidence-building measures, saying: “It will contribute to the resolution of the conflict, and will strengthen confidence among the societies.”

The OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs informed Ažubalis about the trilateral meeting of Armenian, Azerbaijani and Russian Presidents in Kazan on June 24, which was an attempt to agree on basic principles as the framework for a comprehensive settlement of the conflict.

They also discussed the prospects of a solution of the Karabakh conflict, and planned negotiating initiatives for the remaining year, the OSCE said in a press release.