OSCE is encouraged by “positive momentum that the recent frequent meetings of the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan have created,” stated the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Greek Prime Minister and Foreign Minister George Papandreou, speaking at the OSCE Permanent Council Session in Vienna on October 29.

“I would like to pay tribute to their tireless efforts to find a mutually acceptable solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh issue,” Papandreou said.

He also paid tribute to the Minsk Group Co-Chairs and his personal representative Andrzej Kasprzyk.

According to him, the conflicts prevent from the regions’ development and there are “potential sources of discord and we cannot afford to leave them on the back burner. The war in Georgia has proven this point.”

The OSCE Chairman-in-Office underlined that “for the populations affected, irrespective of their national origin, the concept of cooperative and indivisible security has no practical value. They all need peace and stability, not a fragile status quo.”