Unresolved conflicts in OSCE territory are main challenges that organization faces, Austrian President Heinz Fischer said at the summit, NEWS.am correspondent reports from Astana.

According to him, participation of all involved parties is required for the settlement of conflicts.

As NEWS.am reported earlier, the OSCE Summit opened on December 1 in Astana. On the occasion of the OSCE Summit in Astana, Kazakhstan, the Heads of Delegation of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair countries (the President of the Russian Federation Dmitri Medvedev, the Prime Minister of France Francois Fillon, and the Secretary of State of the United States Hillary Rodham Clinton), the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, and the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan issued a joint statement. They agreed that the time has come for more decisive efforts to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

They called for additional steps to strengthen the ceasefire and carry out confidence-building measures in all fields.