Yes, the dissolution of the Minsk Group was one of the conditions which Azerbaijan put forward in the very first stages of negotiations, said the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev in an interview to Saudi Arabia’s Al Arabiya TV channel, APA reports.
"Our logic was based on the fact that when the Minsk Group was created by the OSCE in 1992, it was created to address the Karabakh conflict. So when Armenia officially recognizes Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan, and when they say that the conflict is over, that means that the legal existence of the Minsk Group becomes absurd. And if they insist on keeping it alive, that means that they still have territorial claims to Karabakh. That was the logic which formed the basis of our position, and it took us a lot of time and effort to persuade Armenia to agree that both sides should write a letter to the OSCE in order to dissolve the Minsk Group, which happened in the presence of President Trump. So now the process has started, and that will be the legal death of the Minsk Group, because it has already been dysfunctional for almost five years," - the President added.
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