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Kasprzyk: Work underway on implementation of presidential agreements on expanding PR CiO Office

20 October 2016 14:09 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Malahat Najafova - APA. Work is underway on the implementation of presidential agreements on expanding the Office of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office (PR CiO), Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk told APA on Thursday.

“At the summits in Vienna and St Petersburg, an idea of expanding the Office was accepted”, said Kasprzyk. “It is important to note that my mandate and the modalities of work of my Office would be unaffected. We continue to work on the implementation of the presidential agreements.”

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict entered its modern phase when the Armenian SRR made territorial claims against the Azerbaijani SSR in 1988.

A fierce war broke out between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan. As a result of the war, Armenian armed forces occupied some 20 percent of Azerbaijani territory which includes Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent districts (Lachin, Kalbajar, Aghdam, Fuzuli, Jabrayil, Gubadli and Zangilan), and over a million Azerbaijanis became refugees and internally displaced people.

The military operations finally came to an end when Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in Bishkek in 1994.

Dealing with the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is the OSCE Minsk Group, which was created after the meeting of the OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki on 24 March 1992. The Group’s members include Azerbaijan, Armenia, Russia, the United States, France, Italy, Germany, Turkey, Belarus, Finland and Sweden.

Besides, the OSCE Minsk Group has a co-chairmanship institution, comprised of Russian, US and French co-chairs, which began operating in 1996.

Resolutions 822, 853, 874 and 884 of the UN Security Council, which were passed in short intervals in 1993, and other resolutions passed by the UN General Assembly, PACE, OSCE, OIC, and other organizations require Armenia to unconditionally withdraw its troops from Nagorno-Karabakh.