The Russian Foreign Ministry has said that the work of all the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs contributed to the recent statement by the Armenian, Azerbaijani and Russian presidents.
The three presidents issued the statement following their meeting in Sochi on 23 January to discuss resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
The statement noted the importance of moving on to draft a peace agreement and said that the presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia expressed readiness to speed up agreement on the basic principles for a peace deal.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said Russia hoped that this acceleration of the talks would have the desired effect, Rossiya 24 reported.
"We do hope that acceleration of the negotiations will clarify positions and lead to the adoption of the basic principles to clear the way for work on a more complicated document - the peace agreement on the resolution of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict," the Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said.
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