The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Ambassador Igor Popov of Russia, Bernard Fassier of France, and Robert Bradtke of the United States, released a statement on May 24 on occasion of the parliamentary elections in the Artsakh Republic.

The statement says in part that Co-Chairs consider that elections "should not preempt the determination of the final legal status of Nagorno Karabakh in the broader framework of the peaceful settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict."