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PARIS – French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe has said "additional" proposals will be made to Azerbaijan and Armenia on the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.

Juppe said in an interview with the Echo of Moscow radio station that Paris welcomes Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s efforts to move the peace process forward.

"He made much effort both in Sochi and Kazan," the minister said, referring to the latest rounds of Russian-brokered talks between the two countries’ leaders. "But unfortunately, these efforts have yielded no fruit [so far]. Nonetheless, as far as I know, additional proposals will be made to reach some agreement."

President Medvedev hosted Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenia’s Serzh Sargsyan in the Volga city of Kazan on June 24. Both the mediating countries and the conflict parties had urged to sign an agreement on a roadmap of the conflict settlement during the summit, but such a document was not signed, and the parties even traded accusations after the meeting.

Azerbaijan and Armenia waged a brutal war in the early 1990s. About 20 percent of Azerbaijani territory, including Nagorno Karabakh, has been under the occupation of Armenian armed forces since a fragile ceasefire was signed in 1994. Mediators from Russia, the United States and France have led negotiations on Karabakh settlement but little progress has been made so far.