Moscow Urges Yerevan and Baku to Intensify Karabakh Talks

MOSCOW””While welcoming renewed high-level meetings between high-level Armenian and Azerbaijani officials, Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin urged the sides to intensify their efforts to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

In an interview with the Interfax news agency, Karasin welcomed an upcoming meeting between the Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers scheduled for January, saying, “Russia is interested in an effective outcome of the ministerial meeting in January next year and supports the efforts of Yerevan and Baku to seek compromises on the basis of the work done.”