Moscow responded to Richard Hoagland

ArmInfo. The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova  reacted to the statement of the former American co-chair of the OSCE  Minsk Group Richard Hoagland on the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement.

So, when asked how true is the statement of the former American  co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, Richard Hoagland, that allegedly  the Russian co-chair Igor Popov told him that even if the Armenian  and Azerbaijani sides agree with S.V. Lavrov's ideas on the NK  settlement, the Russian side will not agree to their implementation,  Zakharova said in particular:

"Absolutely not. Russia has always been ready for the option of  settlement that would be supported by the parties to the conflict.  The President of the Russian Federation has repeatedly said this.  This position is decisive in the work of the Russian co-chairmanship.

I am not going to guess why R. Hoagland made such a statement.

I want to emphasize that the package of proposals for a settlement,  in addition to the declaration of the leaders of Azerbaijan and  Armenia, also included a joint statement of Russia, the United States  and France in support of it. These two documents, plus a UN Security  Council resolution approving a package of proposals for a  Nagorno-Karabakh settlement, constituted the essence of the Russian  proposals of that time, of which the other co-chair countries - the  United States and France - were in detail aware and which they fully  supported. "