OSCE comments on suspension of mandate of OSCE representative in Azerbaijan

Baku. 2 June. REPORT.AZ/ The OSCE commented on the suspension of Mandate of OSCE representative in Azerbaijan Alexis Shakhtakhtinski. 

Report informs citing press service of OSCE, the Contract of the Ambassador Alexis Shakhtakhtinsky expired on May 31.

Head of Foreign Relations Department of the Administration of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Novruz Mammadov posted on his Twitter page on June 1.

"According to diplomatic circles, the position of the U.S. Representative to the OSCE was the main reason. The U.S. Representative to the OSCE Daniel Baer rebuked A. Shakhtakhtinsky for posing on the picture next to the President of Azerbaijan Apparently, if Mr. Shakhtakhtinsky had posed next to Ambassador Baer his future career would have been more successful", N.Mammadov wrote.

The OSCE press service, in turn, said that "this process and the mandate of OSCE Project Coordinator in Azerbaijan have nothing to do with each other."