Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan discussed a number of issues related to the peaceful settlement process of the Karabakh conflict with the French Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, Stéphane Visconti, and the Deputy Director of the Europe Department of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sylvain Guiogué.
Ararat Mirzoyan drew the attention of the French Co-Chair to the humanitarian situation created as a result of the 44-day war. According to a ministry statement, Mirzoyan stressed the need for the swift and unconditional return of Armenian prisoners of war and civilian detainees held in Azerbaijan.
They emphasised the need to resume the peaceful settlement process of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict under the auspices of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmanship. Ararat Mirzoyan reaffirmed that the Armenian side supports the position voiced in the joint statements of the Minsk Group co-chairmanship after the second Artsakh war, particularly the need for a lasting and stable settlement of the conflict on the basis of the well-known principles and elements.
