AZERBAIJANI AND RUSSIAN FMS DISCUSS NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT SETTLEMENT
APA, Azerbaijan
June 18 2014
"The relations between Azerbaijan and Russia are of strategic
importance. Our economic relations are developing rapidly," Azerbaijani
Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said at the press conference
following the meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in
Baku, APA reports.
Mammadyarov said that they discussed ways to deepen the cooperation,
as well as the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: "Russia
is a co-chair country of the OSCE Minsk Group. The status quo is
unacceptable and we discussed ways to move the issue off deadlock."
Elmar Mammadyarov noted that parliamentary diplomacy between
the two countries is also important, Speaker of the Azerbaijani
Parliament Ogtay Asadov has recently visited Russia and the Russian
parliamentarians will visit Azerbaijan in the near future.
Elmar Mammadyarov said that they also discussed what is happening
in the Middle East and Ukraine; Lavrov conveyed Russia's position
regarding Ukraine.
APA, Azerbaijan
June 18 2014
"The relations between Azerbaijan and Russia are of strategic
importance. Our economic relations are developing rapidly," Azerbaijani
Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said at the press conference
following the meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in
Baku, APA reports.
Mammadyarov said that they discussed ways to deepen the cooperation,
as well as the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: "Russia
is a co-chair country of the OSCE Minsk Group. The status quo is
unacceptable and we discussed ways to move the issue off deadlock."
Elmar Mammadyarov noted that parliamentary diplomacy between
the two countries is also important, Speaker of the Azerbaijani
Parliament Ogtay Asadov has recently visited Russia and the Russian
parliamentarians will visit Azerbaijan in the near future.
Elmar Mammadyarov said that they also discussed what is happening
in the Middle East and Ukraine; Lavrov conveyed Russia's position
regarding Ukraine.