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Diplomacy can help move the settlement of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict from a dead point, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at a joint press conference with his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mammadyarov in Baku on November 20.

“We show common positions on international platforms with regard to the inadmissibility of attempts to violate, ignore the principle of equal rights of states. Of course, we touched upon the settlement of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Nobody is interested in the conflict,” said Lavrov.

“We need to search for solutions. As co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group, we will continue to seek for mutually acceptable peaceful solutions, taking into account the hints that emerged during the recent meeting of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs with the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia in Moscow,” added the foreign minister.

The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. As a result of the ensuing war, in 1992 Armenian armed forces occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts.

The 1994 ceasefire agreement was followed by peace negotiations. Armenia has not yet implemented four UN Security Council resolutions on withdrawal of its armed forces from the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding districts.

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