NATO calls on the parties to the Karabakh conflict to ease the tension and refrain from violence, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in Warsaw today, RIA Novosti reports.

“I expect our communiqué to refer to the conflict in Nagorno Karabakh. We call on the parties to ease the tension, refrain from violence and continue the attempts to reach a peaceful and grounded settlement to the Karabakh conflict through negotiations,” Stoltenberg told reporters ahead of the NATO summit today.

“We support all the efforts for finding a peaceful solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict based on negotiations,” said Stoltenberg.