High time to intensify efforts for settling Nagorno-Karabakh issue: Lavrov

It is high time to intensify efforts for settling the Nagorno-Karabakh problem, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said during his talks with the Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mamedyarov on Friday, TASS reports.

“We have been working in line with the agreements in the framework of co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk group with our American and French counterparts,” the Russian foreign minister said. “Our contacts with them are permanent, and their contact us regularly, too.”

“I believe the common approach is to move towards results,” Lavrov said. “We shall be able to achieve progress of the kind in near future.”