Moscow: Russia pays special attention to the Karabakh issue - it belongs to a number of foreign policy priorities
ArmInfo. Russia has always supported measures aimed at reducing tensions in the zone of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. On August 17, during a daily briefing, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said.
At the same time she added that the co-chairs repeatedly stated about the need for taking concrete steps in this direction, it was said at the summits in Vienna in May 2016 and St. Petersburg in July of the same year. "At the same time, the implementation of the measures proposed by the mediators depends on the goodwill of the parties to the conflict. For our part, we are doing everything possible to stabilize the situation and create the conditions for the continuation of the negotiation process aimed at achieving a settlement. This approach prevailed at the meeting of the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia in Moscow in April this year. Now the co-chairs are working on preparing the next summit on the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement," Zakharova said. And in this context she added that for this purpose in July in Brussels the mediators met with the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan. According to her, the consultations will be continued on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York in the second half of September, following which an appropriate statement will be made.
"I would like to emphasize once again that Russia pays special attention to the Karabakh issue, it is one of our foreign policy priorities, it also appears in the concept of Russia's foreign policy," concluded the representative of the Russian foreign ministry.