Thank you.
Mr. Chair, certainly the OSCE has been the pre-eminent regional security organization managing this conflict for decades, or trying to manage it. It is, however, quite sidelined at the moment. We will always support the OSCE and we will continue to advocate for a role, but it is sidelined due to current realities.
Azerbaijan really rejects much engagement from the OSCE at this point; they believe that they haven't helped solve the conflict in the last 30 years. That's their position. Also, Russia has not been engaging constructively as a Minsk Group co-chair since their invasion of Ukraine in February.
There are, however, a number of other mediation tracks by our partners. The EU is quite involved. They had a surge in mediation efforts last April where they brought leaders together, and foreign ministers also agreed on setting up a border demarcation commission. That progress has now been stalled with the current hostilities, but we hope we can get back there, so we certainly support the EU's work, as well as the OSCE's, in trying to solve the conflict. We also have partners, such as the United States and France, that are actively trying to mediate and meeting all parties involved.