ArmInfo. Armenia highly values Russia's contribution, together with other co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, aimed at an exclusively peaceful settlement of the Karabakh conflict. Armenian Foreign Minister Zorgb Mnatsakanyan stated on June 7 in Moscow at a joint press conference with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
"Naturally, my Russian colleague touched upon a number of topical regional and international issues, special attention was paid to the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement, and we highly appreciate Russia's contribution, together with other co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, aimed at an exclusively peaceful settlement of the Karabakh conflict. Joint efforts aimed at creating conditions for the advancement of the negotiation process. To this stage, we are working to engage in the negotiation process and ensure e . The continuity remains unchanged pivot point - is the status and security of Karabakh people, and negotiations aimed at resolving these issues", said Mnatsakanyan.
Mnatsakanyan informed that the meeting also discussed the issue of coordinating the actions of the two countries within the framework of the UN, the OSCE, the CIS, the Council of Europe, the BSEC, and other venues.
With satisfaction, he added, the sides touched upon the prolonged activation of cooperation in the economic sphere, the growth of bilateral trade turnover. They stressed mutual interest in enhancing such important mechanisms of bilateral cooperation both within the inter-parliamentary and intergovernmental commission and the intergovernmental commission for military-technical cooperation.