State Duma may issue a statement on the situation with  Nagorno-Karabakh

ArmInfo. The State Duma may in the near future make a statement in connection with the aggravation of the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh, the text is now  being prepared. Leonid Kalashnikov, head of the Duma Committee for  CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration and Relations with Compatriots,  told TASS on September 28.

"Yes, it is planned," he said, specifying that the text is now  undergoing approval. According to the MP, the general message will be  contained in "a call for peace, it is not planned to take sides." The  head of the committee specified that the text could be prepared for  adoption "tomorrow or the day after tomorrow."

As Viktor Vodolatsky, the first deputy chairman of the committee,  specified in his turn, we can talk about two calls - to the  parliaments of Armenia and Azerbaijan. "We have now been working on  this issue. And by the end of the day we will have a decision: either  we separately prepare an appeal to each parliament, or it will be  joint, to the parliaments of both Armenia and Azerbaijan," he told  TASS. After that, the draft or draft documents will be discussed by  the Committee on CIS Affairs on Tuesday.

"The general call will be that it is necessary to stop armed clashes,  soldiers and especially civilians should not be killed. We need to  sit down at the negotiating table, including with the participation  of the Russian side. We, parliamentarians, for our part are ready to  work out this algorithm with the relevant committees." - added  Vodolatsky, stressing that good-neighborly relations with both  Armenia and Azerbaijan are important for the Russian Federation.