Vienna: The OSCE has completed the closure of the Minsk Process and its related structures at 23:59 on 30 November 2025. This action follows the Ministerial Council decision MC.DEC/1/25, which was adopted on 1 September 2025, after receiving a Joint Appeal from Armenia and Azerbaijan to the Finnish Chairpersonship of the OSCE.
According to Azerbaijan State News Agency, the completion of necessary administrative procedures marks the end of this closure process. This closure was implemented based on the 1 September consensus decision of all 57 OSCE participating States. The decision came in the wake of a historic Joint Declaration signed in Washington D.C. on 8 August 2025 by Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev, with U.S. President Donald J. Trump as a witness.