Monday, January 15 2018 13:10

ArmInfo. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is convinced that the Nagorno-Karabakh issue can not be resolved once and for all by one document. "This problem cannot be solved once and for forever, a step-by-step approach is needed reflecting an agreement on what is possible for mow and determining the ways of working on issues that require additional discussion within the purpose of achieving a final settlement, including the status of Nagorno- Karabakh. that, it's up to the parties, "Lavrov said at a January 15 press conference. The head of the Russian minister expressed his conviction that now it would be important to take additional steps to make the contact line more peaceful. According to him, this would help to move to a political settlement. At the same time, he stressed that the Russian Federation can not have concrete plans to solve this problem because only the parties can solve it. Lavrov stressed that Russia, along with the other co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group - the United States and France, is doing everything to create the conditions for such a settlement. At the same time, the Russian minister recalled that in recent years intensive efforts have been made to summarize all the positions of the parties, to try to isolate from them the coincident approaches to those real aspects of this crisis, and at the same time try to suggest, as it were, those compromises that could lead to a common denominator to the parties, on those issues on which they diverge until now. "This work was carried out intensively and regularly, including last year.All our proposals, all the proposals of the co-chairs, common positions from Russia, the United States and France are with the parties and they know what the co-chairs think, but decide to the parties, and of course, we expect that some positive impulses will follow from both countries, "Lavrov said and, in this context, positively assessed the meetings held at the level of the heads of the states of Armenia and Azerbaijan and the foreign ministers in the past year.