Russian Foreign Minister rejects accusations of unilateral steps on Karabakh

Moscow/19.11.20/Turan: The position of the three co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group - Russia, the United States and France - has been repeatedly stated at the level of presidents, ministers, special representatives of the co-chairing countries in the last month before the conclusion of the agreement of November 9. This is a position in favor of an immediate end to the bloodshed and the development of a mechanism for monitoring the ceasefire. The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, stated it on 19 November at the request of Russian TV commenting on the reason for the discontent of the United States and France with the trilateral agreement on an armistice in Karabakh of November 9.

“In my contacts in recent days with my American and French colleagues, as well as in the contacts between President E. Macron and President Vladimir Putin on the Nagorno-Karabakh issue, a wounded pride is clearly slipping. It is sad. I have already spoken twice in the last few days with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of France Jean-I. Le Drian. I tried to explain to him that we care and worry that people are not killed, that people do not rush out of their homes, so that huge numbers - tens of thousands - are not replenished with the number of refugees and displaced persons. In a situation when it was almost about minutes, (each of these minutes had a price in the form of human lives), call Washington and Paris; agree on whether they would support certain formulations. It is incorrect and unethical to make such claims," he noted. -02D-