Meeting of Foreign Minister of Russian Federation with Co-chairs of OSCE MG on Nagorno-Karabakh
On September 8 in Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov received the OSCE Minsk Group composed of I. Popov (Russia), J. Warlick (USA) and P. Andrieu (France) and the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman on Nagorno-Karabakh A. Kasprzik.
As the press service of the Foreign Ministry said, the sides discussed topical issues of the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process, including the implementation of agreements reached at the summits in Vienna on May 16, 2016 and St. Petersburg on June 20, 2016, as well as the current situation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border and the line of contact. -02D-
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