The co-chair countries [i.e. Russia, the US, and France] of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Minsk Group (OSCE MG)  are confident that the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has no military solution.

The OSCE MG Minsk Group US Co-Chair, Ambassador Richard Hoagland, informed the aforementioned at a press conference, according to TASS  news agency of Russia. He added that the Karabakh peace talks need to resume at the highest level. Hoagland noted that, now, they are concentrating their efforts on organizing a high-level meeting.

The OSCE MG Minsk Group French Co-Chair, Ambassador Stephane Visconti, for his part, said the US, Russia, and France will continue their joint efforts toward settling the Karabakh conflict. The diplomat noted that even though this certainly is a complicated matter—as there is tension at the Line of Contact, the process continues, it has moved off dead center and the parties want to achieve progress, and he noted that he believes this is important. 

And the OSCE MG Minsk Group Russian Co-Chair, Ambassador Igor Popov, in turn, urged the parties to the conflict to carry out the arrangements that were made during Armenia’s and Azerbaijan’s meetings in the Austrian capital city of Vienna, and in Saint Petersburg, Russia.