Moscow gives importance to making the situation on borders with Nagorno Karabakh calmer. “I think that now it is important to undertake additional steps for the situation to become quiet on the borderline [in Nagorno Karabakh – ed.] in any case, it would help to pass to political resolution”, says the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Sergey Lavrov, summarizing the Russian diplomatic year – 2017, informs “TASS” Russian news agency. “That issue [of Nagorno Karabakh – ed.] is not possible to solve through one document for good, a phased approach is necessary, which will express the serious agreement of the possible steps for the present and will define the operations around the questions which have a need for additional discussions for the sake of the ultimate resolution, Nagorno Karabakh status issue encompassed.”
He has mentioned that the operations around the conflict settlement have been in intensive and stable process. Mr. Lavrov has emphasized that Russia cannot have any certain plan for the resolution of the conflict, inasmuch as the “issue can be solved only by the parties”.
As stated by the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russia creates conditions for such resolution together with other participants of the process, combining the positioning and the respective approaches of the sides and endeavoring to “prompt the compromises which can bring the sides to a common opinion in issues around which disagreements are in place until present. “We wait for receiving any positive signals by the two states [Armenia and Azerbaijan – ed.]”, he adds.