ARMINFO News Agency, Armenia
August 17, 2017 Thursday


Moscow: Russia pays special attention to the Karabakh issue - it
belongs to a number of foreign policy priorities

Yerevan August 17

Marianna Mkrtchyan. 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.