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OSCE completes closure of Minsk Process and related structures

01 December 2025 12:10 (UTC +04:00)

The OSCE finalized the closure of the Minsk Process and its related structures at 23:59 on 30 November 2025, in line with the Ministerial Council decision MC.DEC/1/25 adopted on 1 September 2025, following a Joint Appeal from Armenia and Azerbaijan to the Finnish Chairpersonship of the OSCE, OSCE said in a statement, APA reports.

"The completion of all necessary administrative procedures marks the conclusion of the closure process. This process implemented the 1 September consensus decision of all 57 OSCE participating States in the wake of the historic Joint Declaration signed in Washington D.C. on 8 August 2025 by Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan and President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, and witnessed by U.S. President Donald J. Trump," the statement reads.

Note that on September 1, 2025, the OSCE Ministerial Council adopted a decision to close the OSCE Minsk Process and its related structures. According to the decision, and in line with the joint letter addressed to the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office by the Foreign Ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia within the framework of the meeting held in Washington on August 8, 2025, with the participation and at the invitation of the President of the United States, the activities of the OSCE Minsk Process, the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on the conflict dealt with by the OSCE Minsk Conference, and the High-Level Planning Group have been terminated as of September 1.

The OSCE Secretariat has been instructed to finalize the organizational and technical matters arising from the closure of these structures no later than December 1, 2025. The decision also states that all previously adopted OSCE decisions regarding the former Armenia–Azerbaijan conflict have been nullified and declared invalid.