Russian and EU political directors stressed the need to observe the  ceasefire in Karabakh

ArmInfo. Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Alexander Grushko and Deputy Secretary General of the EU Foreign Policy Service Enrique Mora  discussed the situation around Nagorno-Karabakh and stressed the need  to observe the ceasefire, an agreement on which was reached by the  Armenian and Azerbaijani sides in Moscow on October 10.

"On the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement, the need to observe a  humanitarian truce was emphasized, an agreement on which was reached  in Moscow at the initiative of Russian President Vladimir  Vladimirovich Putin on October 10," the statement of the Russian  diplomatic department circulated on October 15 following the  consultations held on the eve reads.

On October 9-10 in Moscow, at the initiative of the Russian side,  trilateral negotiations were held between the Foreign Ministers of  the Russian Federation, Azerbaijan and Armenia Sergey Lavrov, Jeyhun  Bayramov and Zohrab Mnatsakanyan. As a result of more than ten hours  of consultations, Baku and Yerevan managed to agree on a ceasefire  from 12:00 local time in October for humanitarian purposes for the  exchange of prisoners and bodies of the dead, but the Azerbaijani  side continued large-scale attacks.