Washington - Saba:
The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan signed a statement on Saturday calling for the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
This came in a statement issued following a trilateral meeting in Washington between Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and US President Donald Trump and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.
The statement read: "We witnessed the signing of a joint statement by the Foreign Ministers of the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan addressed to the OSCE regarding the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Process and related structures."
"We call on all OSCE participating states to accept this decision," it added.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced, following the trilateral summit with US President Donald Trump and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, that peace has been achieved between Yerevan and Baku.
Pashinyan told reporters in Yerevan: "Today we can confirm that peace has been established between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Of course, this peace must be institutionalized."
He added that the peace process that had begun would continue, noting that Yerevan and Baku's request to dissolve the OSCE Minsk Group came because this structure had become a symbol of the conflict, and that refusing to dissolve it could raise doubts about the other side's sincerity.
A joint statement following the meetings stated that the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan and the US President "witnessed" the foreign ministers of the two countries initialing the text of an agreement reached on establishing peace and relations between the two countries, stressing the need to complete the necessary steps for the final signing and ratification of the agreement and to consolidate peace between the two countries.
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