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Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev phoned Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on April 6, Azertac state news agency reported.

They discussed the recent events on the line of contact of the Armenian and Azerbaijani troops and situation after cease-fire was reached on the frontline.

The importance of peacefully solving the conflict through the OSCE Minsk Group based on international law was emphasized during the phone conversation.

The sides also exchanged views over the bilateral relations between the two countries in various fields.

Earlier, President Nazarbayev and Russia's President Vladimir Putin discussed the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and the cooperation of the two countries by phone.

The presidents exchanged views about the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh and the search of ways for its peaceful settlement.

Putin informed about the Russian side's ongoing mediation steps to facilitate the normalization of the situation, said the agency.

For over two decades, Azerbaijan and Armenia have been locked in conflict which emerged over Armenia's territorial claims against its South Caucasus neighbor. Since a war in the early 1990s, Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan's territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding regions.

Over the entire period of its existence, the OSCE Minsk Group, which acted as the only mediator in resolution of the conflict, failed to move forward in resolving the long lasting conflict.