Azerbaijan is expecting results from the talks with Armenia on settling the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov has said.
He made the comments at a press conference in Tbilisi on Monday with his Georgian counterpart, Grigol Vashadze, Trend news agency reported.
On Saturday, Mammadyarov held talks with his Armenian and Russian counterparts in Moscow to prepare for a meeting of the three countries' presidents in Kazan on 25 June.
"We believe that the current status quo on Nagorno-Karabakh suits no one," Mammadyarov said in Tbilisi. "We are expecting real results."
He repeated comments made earlier on Monday at a press conference in Baku that "some progress" had been made in the talks on Saturday.
"There was rapprochement on some issues," Mammadyarov said.
Meanwhile, the spokesman for Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry, Elkhan Polukhov, said that the public and authorities shared the view that Karabakh was an integral part of Azerbaijani territory.
“The position of the Azerbaijani side is obvious. Our position is that the country’s territorial integrity cannot be a matter of debate. The public support this position unequivocally,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Polukhov said, according to Gun.Az.
The Russian, French and US presidents, whose countries co-chair the OSCE Minsk Group, mediating a solution to the conflict, issued a statement last month calling on all sides to take a decisive step towards a peaceful settlement and urging the leaders to prepare their populations for peace, not war.
Although Armenia and Azerbaijan signed a cease-fire in the Karabakh conflict in 1994, a peace agreement has remained elusive.
The nub of the conflict remains unresolved - the competing claims of territorial integrity, which Azerbaijan insists takes precedence in the case of Karabakh, and self-determination, which Armenia wants to see for the Armenians of Karabakh.
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