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Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) will close its Yerevan office in coming months, the organization\u2019s web site reported\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.osce.org\/parliamentary-assembly\/315346\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on May 4<\/a>. The move comes after Azerbaijan unilaterally blocked approval for the office mandate.\u00a0Armenia and other members, including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/osce.usmission.gov\/statement-closure-osce-office-yerevan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the United States<\/a>, objected to the move. A consensus-based organization the OSCE needs approval from all of its 57 members for funding decisions.<\/p>\n<p>The OSCE is the main international platform for Karabakh negotiations, but\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.osce.org\/office-in-yerevan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the office in Yerevan<\/a>dealt primarily with democracy and human rights issues. The office is headed by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.osce.org\/node\/230911\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Argo Avakov<\/a>, who previously served in the Russian government and the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, the OSCE maintains Tbilisi-based office of representative for the Karabakh conflict led since 1996 by ambassador\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.osce.org\/cio\/andrzej-kasprzyk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andrzej Kasprzyk<\/a>. That office has half a dozen monitors that visit the Armenian-Azerbaijan Line of Contact, usually twice a month. In recent years, Azerbaijan has sought to curtail its activities as well.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past decade a number of OSCE field offices in post-Soviet states were shut down or downgraded, with member states taking advantage of the consensus system to express their annoyance with the organization.<\/p>\n<p>The OSCE Mission in Georgia was shuttered\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-georgia-monitors-idUSTRE55T3OR20090630\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in 2009<\/a>\u00a0after the Russian government blocked its funding.<\/p>\n<p>The OSCE Office in Minsk was closed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/charter97.org\/en\/news\/2011\/3\/31\/37282\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in 2011<\/a>\u00a0after the government of Belarus refused to extend its mandate.<\/p>\n<p>On Azerbaijan\u2019s insistence, the OSCE Office in Baku was first downgraded to OSCE project-coordinator position\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.osce.org\/baku-closed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in 2014<\/a>, and then fully shut down by 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, OSCE retains field presence in Moldova, Ukraine and five Central Asian capitals. In early 2014, Russia approved Ukraine\u2019s request for the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to monitor the\u00a0conflict in eastern Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-institute-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Azerbaijan Forces Closure of OSCE\u2019s Yerevan Office<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/armenian\/2017\/05\/04\/azerbaijan-forces-closure-of-osces-yerevan-office\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Azerbaijan Forces Closure of OSCE\u2019s Yerevan Office - 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