The OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs can only help create conditions for dialogue on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a joint press conference with the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Slovak Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak, Trend reports Feb. 19.

OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Slovakia’s Minister for Foreign and European Affairs Miroslav Lajcak will visit Azerbaijan and Armenia to discuss the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

If negotiations on the settlement of Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict yield no results, Azerbaijan will use force to restore its territorial integrity, Azer Khudiyev, ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of Azerbaijan to Ukraine, said in an interview with the public radio of Ukraine, Trend reports quoting the Azerbaijani Embassy in Ukraine Feb. 18.

On the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference on February 16 Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov met with the US Senior National Security Council Director Fiona Hill, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry told Trend on Feb. 16.

Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov may meet on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference with his Armenian counterpart Zohrab Mnatsakanyan and discuss the possibility of a summit of the two countries' leaders, RIA Novosti cited Mammadyarov, Trend reports.

The Institute of History of the Azerbaijani National Academy of Sciences will hold a conference in Poland devoted to the Khojaly genocide, director of the Institute, academician Yaqub Mahmudov, said, Trend reports referring to the Institute.

By another statement, the “representative” of the separatist regime created in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan, despite the constructive position shown by Azerbaijan on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, harms the mediation efforts and the negotiation process, Tural Ganjaliyev, chairman of the Azerbaijani Community of the Nagorno-Karabakh Region of Azerbaijan, said, Trend reports on Feb. 13.

Spokesperson for Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry Leyla Abdullayeva has urged Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan not to exacerbate the existing situation by his statements, but to create a basis for negotiations to resolve the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, just like the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs stressed in their recent statements, Trend reports.

The ceasefire monitoring at the contact line between the troops of Azerbaijan and Armenia, in the direction of Goranboy district, held in accordance with the mandate of Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on Feb. 13, ended without any incidents, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry told Trend.

A certain revival has been observed in the negotiation process on the settlement of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in the end of 2018, as well as this year, Vice-Speaker of the Azerbaijani Parliament Bahar Muradova said Feb. 12 at a plenary session of the Parliament, Trend reports.

Azerbaijan and Pakistan have faced extreme security challenges since independence. Azerbaijan has been drawn into territorial conflict with neighboring Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh, and Pakistan’s with India because of Kashmir.

In accordance with the mandate of the personal representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, regular monitoring has been scheduled for February 13, 2019 at the state border of Azerbaijan and Armenia in the direction of Goranboy region, Trend reports with reference to the press service of Azerbaijani Defense Ministry.

Baku hopes for progress in 2019 in terms of withdrawal of Armenian armed forces from Azerbaijan’s occupied territories, Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said in an interview with The Korea Times, Trend reports.

Military units of the armed forces of Armenia violated ceasefire 30 times throughout the day, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said Feb. 10, Trend reports.

Iran is interested in the rapid settlement of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Iranian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Javad Jahangirzadeh said, Trend reports.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has announced the number of released hostages taken during the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

More than 4,500 persons in total went missing as a result of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) representatives said during an event held in their Baku office on Thursday, Trend reports.

The International Committee of the Red Cross, together with the State Comission of the Republic of Azerbaijan on Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing Persons, has published statistics on saliva samples taken from the relatives of missing persons of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Trend reports.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is not able to really resolve the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Soon it will turn a year he took power into his own hands, but nothing has been done during this time to resolve this conflict, which continues to poison the lives of Azerbaijanis and Armenians.

The topic of Israeli drones in service of the Azerbaijani army was an unpleasant surprise for Armenia.

Elnur Huseynzade, an Azerbaijani citizen who was detained Feb. 1, 2017 by Armenian servicemen in the occupied Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan and “imprisoned” by a decision of the illegal court of the separatist regime, was transferred from Shusha, where he was kept, to Armenia on Feb. 2, Trend reports with reference to Azerbaijan’s State Commission for Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing Persons.

Azerbaijani Minister of Economy Shahin Mustafayev thanked Uzbekistan for supporting Azerbaijan’s position in resolving the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Trend reports referring to Kun.uz. on Feb. 5.

Armenian water terror remains a steady threat to the residents of bordering Azerbaijani villages, who continue suffering from water shortage since the very beginning of Karabakh conflict.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan should understand that the settlement of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, first of all, will open up great economic opportunities for the population of Armenia, spokesperson for the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry Leyla Abdullayeva told Trend Feb. 1.

The recent phone call by US President’s National Security Advisor John Bolton to Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev is testimony to Washington's deep interest to solve the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in a peaceful manner, Peter M. Tase, expert in Transatlantic Relations and Azerbaijani Studies, a senior advisor to the Global Engineering Deans Council and to various European and Latin American governments, told Trend.