Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev has said that his country has proposed to Armenia to jointly apply to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) to cancel the OSCE Minsk Group because it is “not functioning now.”

“We will not de facto allow it to operate. It remains for it to be canceled de jure - legally, and this will show how sincere Armenia is,” Aliyev said at a meeting with parliament speakers of the Parliamentary Assembly of Turkic States in Baku on Thursday, June 6, Anadolu reports.

“If Armenia prefers to maintain the Minsk Group, then their territorial claims against us will continue,” he charged.