The OSCE Co-Chairs have developed this bad habit of very openly lecturing the Armenian side, the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) said in a statement posted on Facebook in response to the recent interview by Co-Chair James Warlick.

The statement says that ANCA astutely observed that “the OSCE Co-Chairs have developed this bad habit of very openly lecturing the Armenian side about exactly what they ‘must’ surrender, while remaining effectively silent about any specific concessions they expect of Azerbaijan. This isn’t mediation, it’s public intimidation.”

The OSCE can do better, while the people of the region deserve better, the message said.

In his recent interview with Russia's Vedomosti newspaper, James Warlick spoke about deployment of peacekeeping forces as an element of the settlement of Karabakh conflict and added that “the occupied territories must be returned to Azerbaijani control in the framework of package settlement.”