Azerbaijan–OSCE relations

Relations between Azerbaijan and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) began when Azerbaijan joined OSCE’s predecessor, the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), on January 30, 1992. This was the first European organization Azerbaijan joined. The CSCE transformed into the OSCE shortly afterwards in 1995.

Since February 1992, the Armenian–Azerbaijani conflict has become the focus of OSCE in accordance with the principles of this organization. For this purpose, the first special mission of the OSCE was in Azerbaijan in mid-February.

The main task of this OSCE Minsk Group is to adjust the Armenian–Azerbaijani conflict and to prepare a relevant document for solving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in a peaceful manner, and to eliminate this conflict by calling a special Minsk Conference. The group includes 11 states – Germany, United States, France, Italy, Sweden, Czech Republic, Turkey, Belarus, Russia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia. Its co-chairing function was implemented by the representative of Russia and Finland from December 1994 until 1997, and since then by the representative of Russia, the United States and France.