Russia’s mediation in the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has been welcomed by the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairing countries, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday on the sidelines of a meeting of the OSCE Ministerial Council in Stockholm, TASS reports.

“The Ministers of Russia, the United States and France, as countries – co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, adopted a statement on the Karabakh settlement, which, among other things, welcomes the mediating efforts of the Russian Federation,” he said.

The text of the statement is yet to be published.