Addressing the meeting, US Ambassador Daniel B. Baer to the Permanent Council said last Friday they learned from the Secretary General that Azerbaijan had declared its intention to revoke its signature to the MoU (Memorandum of Understanding), which contains a number of practical arrangements that pertain to the OSCE Project Coordinator’s Office day to day function in Baku.
“This is deeply disappointing, there’s no other way to put it. But it’s important to remember that the Project Coordinator’s Office operates based on a political mandate that was agreed to by all 57 participating states. Like any consensus decision of the participating States, it cannot be undone except by a consensus decision. The mandate clearly runs through the end of 2015 and, moreover, the participating states saw fit to signal their expectation that this was only an initial term, to be followed by continuation of the mandate passed 2015,” he added.
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