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TBILISI. – The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is working towards increasing the powers of the office of Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk, Personal Representative to the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office.

OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and German Minister for Foreign Affairs Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Friday stated the aforementioned at the 25th Annual Session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, which is convened in Tbilisi, the Armenian News-NEWS.am special reporter informed from the capital city of Georgia.

In his words, the OSCE and its tools for strengthening dialogue and cooperation are indispensable in such critical times for security.  

Steinmeier noted that there was a recent escalation of tension at the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone, and that this led to numerous victims. But he was silent about the fact that Azerbaijan was the initiator of this escalation of tension in early April.

He went on to say that when Germany assumed the OSCE Chairmanship, it formulated two clear components, the first of which is the fact that prolonged conflicts cannot be resolved at once.

The German FM stressed that the risk of escalation of tension at the Karabakh conflict zone is too great, and that they seek to restore the stable situation with solid grounds in Karabakh and that the conflicting parties do not posit complicated conditions for negotiation.

As per the diplomat, now, they are negotiating on the mechanisms to investigate incidents along the line of contact of the Karabakh conflict zone, and they seek to restore the greater synergy between the parties to the conflict.

Frank-Walter Steinmeier added that the second component of Germany’s OSCE Chairmanship refers to the formats of negotiations and the avenues for debates, so that they can actually move forward toward the settlement of conflicts.

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