Moscow / 31.10.19 / Turan: Negotiations of Yerevan and Baku on mutual visits of journalists as part of measures to resolve the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh are mediated by the OSCE secretariat, the hope for a positive outcome of the dialogue remains, announced on Thursday Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov after talks with OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger.
The Russian Foreign Minister recalled that at the meeting in April of the Foreign Ministers of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia, together with the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, the “prospects” of a number of humanitarian measures were discussed. “Including the exchange of detainees, the exchange of bodies of the dead, and mutual trips of journalists in order to defuse the situation a bit and promote an atmosphere of trust, there is a hope” he said.
"The situation with the exchange of kept persons is less optimistic, but we nevertheless proceed from the fact that we need to move in this direction," the minister added. -16D-
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