Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has said that the mandate of the OSCE Minsk Group on the settlement of the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh is de facto invalid, Interfax.az reports.
"The Minsk Group worked for 28 years, until the Second Karabakh War (fall of 2020 – Ed.). The co-chairing countries over these years made perhaps hundreds of visits to Azerbaijan and Armenia. The result is obviously zero," Aliyev said on Tuesday, April 12.
Aliyev claimed that Azerbaijan has settled the Karabakh conflict "through military-political means."
The Second Karabakh war lasted 44 days and ended when Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Russian and Azerbaijani Presidents Vladimir Putin and Ilham Aliyev signed a ceasefire statement on November 9, 2020. Under the deal, the Armenian side returned all the seven regions surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh, having lost a part of Karabakh itself in hostilities.
