Armenian Security Council Secretary Armen Grigoryan, now in Paris on a working visit, today met with French Co-Chair of the Minsk Group Brice Roquefeuil and discussed prospects to settle the Karabakh conflict.

Many observers believe the Minsk Group, following the 2020 Karabakh war, has ceded it role of negotiator in the conflict to the EU.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has repeatedly stated that the Minsk Group didn’t achieve any results in 28 years and that Azerbaijan resolved the Karabakh conflict during the 2020 war. He’s stated there’s no longer any need for the Minsk Group.

Russia, a Minsk Group Co-Chair has stated that Minsk Group Co-Chair countries France and the United States have scuttled the format due to Russophobia.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, in an April 8, 2022 press conference, accused the West of trying to exclude Russia from the OSCE Minsk Group, labelling the attempt as “irresponsible”.

"As for the activities or the future, I would even say, of the troika of the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, I do not know what the future will be," Lavrov said.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan met with Roquefeuil in Yerevan last April and stressed the role of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs’ format in reaching a comprehensive settlement of the Karabakh conflict.