on the silk road

Asbarez Reports that Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is concerned with the situation in the South Caucasus. Azerbaijani news sources are quoting the OSCE’s Chairman-in-Office, Alexander Stubb, as having said on Wednesday that the OSCE has failed to reach any progress in settling the region’s outstanding conflicts.

“Speaking frankly, we failed to reach any progress in the South Caucasus and I am concerned with the situation in the area,” Stubb said, pointing to the conflicts in Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia and North Ossetia.

Stubb’s statements were made during the OSCE’s 17th Parliamentary Assembly Wednesday in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan and come amid growing tensions in the South Caucasus, as Azerbaijan threatens to start a renewed war in the region.

Read the full article