YEREVAN. – The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Participating States have not yet reached consensus on extension of mandates of a number of OSCE field operations.

The OSCE Office in Yerevan, the capital city of Armenia, informed about the aforementioned to Armenian News-NEWS.am, and with respect to the current status of the office.

“The [OSCE] Chairmanship continues to lead negotiations on this with the aim of early agreement. Pending agreement on mandate extension by the [OSCE] participating States, the field operations remain open and will continue administrative, non-mandate-related work. Negotiations are ongoing and we cannot speculate about them,” the respective statement also reads.