Central Asia General Newswire July 19, 2017 Wednesday 4:52 PM MSK Turkish foreign minister demands OSCE Minsk Group make more active efforts toward settling Karabakh conflict BAKU. July 19 Ankara calls on the OSCE Minsk Group for settling the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh to intensify its efforts, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said. "We demand that Armenia stop shelling [populated localities in Azerbaijan] and reiterate the necessity of withdrawing Armenian troops from occupied Azerbaijani lands. We stand ready to always support Azerbaijan and demand that the OSCE Minsk Group make more active efforts to settle the conflict," Cavusoglu said at a press conference in Baku on Wednesday. The foreign ministers of Azerbaijan, Turkey, and Turkmenistan discussed political cooperation at a meeting in Baku on Wednesday, Cavusoglu said. "But our economic matters are also important. We have a decline in trade with some countries. The construction of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway corridor is nearing completion, and trains should start operating on this railroad in the fall," he said. All three countries are "interested in strengthening economic cooperation," he said. "Today's meeting was aimed at preparing a summit in Ashgabat, but we will hold preparatory meetings for the summit before this, at which various agreements will be signed," he said.