The meeting of presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia with the mediation of Putin will not take place

A tripartite meeting of the presidents of Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia, announced in the end of June, will likely not take place. The Russian Foreign Ministry has withdrawn information from their official website on June 9 considering it "not correct", noted the press secretary of the Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova.

Zakharova also said that the purpose of the meeting is the prerogative of the president's administration.

In turn, the president's press secretary Dmitry Peskov, without naming the exact date of the meeting, said that the work in this direction is ongoing, and it is not excluded that the meeting will be held, if the parties come to a common denominator.

On June 9 morning Turan agency noted with high probability reported that the meeting of the presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia planned for the end of June did not take place.

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On 9 June in the second half of the day the Russian Foreign Ministry reported on the preparation of the trilateral meeting in St. Petersburg at the highest level on the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement. Issues related to the preparation for the summit were discussed in Moscow on Thursday at a meeting of Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin and the Ambassador of France to Russia Jean-Maurice Ripert.

The Kremlin and Smolensk Square is preparing in full swing preparing for the 20th Petersburg International Economic Forum on June 16-18, and do not have time to speak on Karabakh.

About the planned meeting between the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan in June was reported on May 17 as a result of their meeting in Vienna with the mediation of foreign ministers of the OSCE Minsk Group on Nagorno-Karabakh.