Turan Information Agency, Azerbaijani Opposition Friday Russian Foreign Ministry on Karabakh settlement Moscow/18.08.17/Turan: Press Secretary of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova commented on the situation around the Karabakh settlement at a traditional briefing on Thursday, in response to journalists' requests. "Russia has always supported measures aimed at reducing tensions in the zone of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The need for concrete steps in this direction was repeatedly stated by the co-chairs, it was said at the summits in Vienna (May 2016) and St. Petersburg (June 2016)," she said. "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 our best to stabilize the situation and create 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 the preparation of the next summit on the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement. To this end, in July this year they held talks in Brussels with the Foreign Ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia. Consultations will be continued "on the sidelines" of the next session of the UN General Assembly in New York in the second half of September. Based on their results, a corresponding statement will be made. I would like to emphasize again what we regularly say at all levels: in Russia, the Karabakh issue is given special attention, it is one of our foreign policy priorities and is featured in the Foreign Policy Concept of the Russian Federation," Zakharova said. -02D-