The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) supports dialogue between Azerbaijan and Armenia and hopes that this dialogue will be accompanied by concrete results in the future, PACE President Movlud Cavusoglu told.
The PACE has disappointed over that the presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia have failed to reach agreement in Kazan, he said.
"PACE, of course, supports dialogue between Azerbaijan and Armenia and we support the continuation of the two countries’ presidents’ meetings under the chairmanship of the Russian President," Cavusoglu said.
The summit of the Presidents of Azerbaijan, Russia and Armenia ended Friday in Kazan without reaching an agreement on the basic principles of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement, but the sides mentioned the progress towards this goal, the joint statement said.
"The Heads of State highlighted the achievement of mutual understanding on a number of issues, the solution of which contributes to creating conditions to approve the basic principles," the statement said.
The document says that the meeting participants reviewed the activities conducted to agree upon the project of basic principles.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan since 1992, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and 7 surrounding districts.
Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group - Russia, France, and the U.S. - are currently holding the peace negotiations.
Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding regions.
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