The foreign ministers of the CIS countries-co-chairs urged the parties to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to respect the ceasefire, according to RIA Novosti.
"We call on the parties to the conflict to strictly observe the cessation of hostilities and to exercise restraint in order to prevent new human victims," reads the statement issued at the meeting of Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) of the CIS in Moscow.
The document says, "you need all possible measures to stabilize the situation as soon as possible, and to intensify efforts for a peaceful settlement of the conflict based on the principles defined by the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group."- 0-
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