Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will soon decide on further steps towards a Nagorno-Karabakh settlement, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.
Speaking after talks in Moscow with his Armenian counterpart Edward Nalbandian, Lavrov said, “Dmitry Medvedev, as mediator in the Karabakh talks with the full support of the US and French presidents, is now ending the analysis of the situation after the Kazan meeting [on the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement].”
“He [Dmitry Medvedev] will shortly decide on further steps,” the minister stressed.
The Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents failed to reach agreement at their meeting in Kazan, mediated by the Russian president, on 24 June.
They announced, however, that they had coordinated important issues that would help achieve a final agreement on the disputed territory.
Two years ago the Russian president took the initiative to consult the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan in the search for a settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
"We think that we have now come to a situation when we need to make decisions," Sergey Lavrov said.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will visit Azerbaijan on 8 July.
The visit will be a continuation of the Kazan meeting of the presidents of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Russia, a diplomatic source said.
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