Moscow / 06/01/18 / Turan: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan will hold talks in Moscow on June 7. The topic of the talks will be bilateral relations and settlement in Nagorno-Karabakh. This was announced by Deputy Director of the Department of Information and Press of the Russian Foreign Ministry Artem Kozhin.
"It is expected to discuss a wide range of issues of bilateral cooperation in the context of the meeting of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi on May 14," he said.
"There will be an exchange of views on the issues of the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement," he added. -02D-
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