RUSSIA IS READY TO FACILITATE MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN ARMENIA AND
AZERBAIJAN

YEREVAN, JANUARY 15. ARMINFO. Russia’s Foreign Ministry is pointing to
certain similarity in Armenia’s and Baku’s views and concepts of the
Karabakh conflict settlement, reports RIA Novosti.

Armenian and Azeri FMs Vardan Oskanyan and Elmar Mamedyarov met in
Prague Jan 10-11 in the presence of the OSCE Minsk Group. Moscow is
pleased to see that the Armenian-Azeri meetings on presidential and
ministerial levels are becoming regular. Meeting under international
aegis Armenian and Azeri officials discuss almost all the aspects of
the problem including such acute points as withdrawal of troops,
demilitarizing of territories, international guarantees, Karabakh’s
status.

Moscow has been lately observing certain similarity in Yerevan’s and
Baku’s views and concepts of the problem. Both parties confirm their
commitments to continue joint work for reducing tensions and improving
the situation in the whole South Caucasus. This also includes the
parties’ agreement to carry out the earlier decisions to send an OSCE
monitoring group to the occupied territories and to organize a new
meeting of the Armenian and Azeri presidents in Warsaw this summer.

As OSCE MG co-chair Russia is committed to facilitate the mutual
understanding between Armenia and Azerbaijan for settling the Karabakh
conflict through peaceful talks.