The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has begun the process of liquidating the Minsk Group and related institutions, spokesperson and deputy head of the Task Force for the Finnish OSCE Chairpersonship, Toni Sandell, told Report.az, the latter informs.
"The Secretariat of the Organization has already started practical steps to implement the decision of the OSCE Permanent Council of September 1 in response to the appeal of Azerbaijan and Armenia. The Secretariat is taking steps to complete the Minsk process and related structures. This concerns personnel issues, archival materials and administration. Only technical functions - such as the transfer of property and equipment - will be carried out until the final completion of the process, which must be done no later than December 1 this year," Sandell noted.
According to him, the work affects several areas, namely the staff of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, the high-level planning group, as well as the management of documentation and archives.
