BAKU. Dec 14
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev wants to resume the Karabakh peace talks and find constructive solutions, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who met with Aliyev in Baku on Thursday, told the press on Friday.
"I had a very long, detailed conversation with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev yesterday. We saw his sincere wish to resume the talks and find constructive solutions," Lavrov said.
"As a close partner of Azerbaijan and Armenia and a co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group together with the Americans and the French, our country will do its best to create the conditions necessary for achieving compromise," he said.
The presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia met in St. Petersburg on the sidelines of the recent Eurasian Economic Union and CIS events, and the two foreign ministers met during the Milan meeting of the OSCE Ministerial Council, Lavrov said.
"Notably, that happened before the Armenian parliamentary elections of December 9. This event has already happened, and the Armenian government is due to be formed. I think that Armenia will be ready to resume the talks together with its Azerbaijani colleagues and the co-chairs quite soon," he said.
"We will try to find, if not a brand-new solution, considering that the outline of the settlement is already clear, but we'll try to find tactical or, if you please, creative ideas that would promote the achievement of a consensus," Lavrov said.