Russia hopes for the resumption of contacts between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno- Karabakh

Russia hopes for a resumption of direct contacts between the leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh and intends to render any assistance in resolving this conflict, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said today after a meeting with his Armenian counterpart.

"We hope that in the near future direct contacts between the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan will be resumed, and we will do our best to help, as I have said, creating the necessary atmosphere for the settlement of the conflict on a particular basis of the earlier reached agreements acceptable to the parties", RIA Novosti reports quoting him.

As VK previously reported, on November 19 in Vienna a meeting between Azerbaijani and Armenian Presidents Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sargsyan will be held.