The leader of the Azerbaijani delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and the PA’s vice president Azay Guliyev joined the Assembly’s Bureau’s virtual meeting held on 24 January.

They discussed the procedures for conducting the winter session of the PA scheduled to take place in Vienna on 23-25 February 2022 and, on another subject, decided to despatch international monitoring teams to Hungary and Serbia where parliamentary elections are due in April this year. Besides, the Bureau went through the current international security situation and commented on the state of affairs in Kazakhstan and in Eastern Europe, the latter being tied to the recent days’ developments about Ukraine. Mr Guliyev spoke at that meeting.

As the meeting drew on, Azay Guliyev informed the Bureau members and the other participants of the priorities of Azerbaijan as the current chair of the OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation. Our MP referred to the steps that have been taken recently towards normalising the Armenian-Azerbaijani relations. He also told of the meticulous discussion of the post-war subjects at the trilateral with the president of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and the prime minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan that the EU President Charles Michel had had in Brussels upon his initiative. At that meeting, Armenia reaffirmed the obligations it had earlier assumed to unblock transport routes in general and the Zangazur Corridor in particular as well as to begin the delimitation of the state borders. In turn, the European Union consented to funding pertaining investment projects. Azerbaijan is ready to start drafting a peace treaty with Armenia without losing any time; such a treaty would be set within the conceptual frameworks of the territorial integrity, sovereignty and the borders of both states recognised as such internationally.

The vice-president of the OSCE PA said that Turkey and Armenia having appointed special representatives for the normalisation of the bilateral relations and those representatives’ having had their first ever meeting in Moscow was one of the geopolitical outcomes of the Garabagh War II. That, Mr Guliyev emphasised, had come as one of the tremendous novelties in the political landscape of the region.

Azay Guliyev also expressed his condolences to the families of the people who had died in the course of the recent events in Kazakhstan.

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