On December 4, within the framework of his working visit to Slovakia to participate in the OSCE 26th Ministerial Conference in Bratislava, Foreign Minister of Armenia Zohrab Mnatakanyan met with OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs, Igor Popov  (Russia), Stéphane Visconti (France), Andrew Schoffer (U.S.) and Andrzej Kasprzyk, the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office.

The Foreign Minister of Armenia and the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs exchanged views on the forthcoming meeting of Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan to be held later on the same day. 

In the context of the agreement on preparing peoples for peace, the interlocutors positively assessed the implementation of media exchange program with the participation of journalists from Armenia, Artsakh and Azerbaijan, coordinated by the Office of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office.

With regards to the recent developments in the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process the importance of steps aimed at creating an environment conducive to peace, including through staying committed to the previously reached agreements was particularly underscored.