Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan held bilateral talks today and discussed regional problems, RIA Novosti reports.
Medvedev reminded that the previous year had positive indicators of trade turnover and business. He stressed on regional problems. They will later discuss a settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.
Sargsyan noted the fruitfulness of such meetings. He thanked Medvedev for efforts in resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The meetings also allow sides to discuss bilateral affairs, the Armenian president notes.
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev will visit Sochi on invitation of Medvedev. They want to renew the dialogue of December 2011, the OSCE said after the OSCE Council of Foreign Ministers in Vilnius.
Nine trilateral meetings have been organized since 2008. Two were organized in 2011: the first in Sochi on March 5, the second in Kazan on June 24th. There was certain rapprochement of positions in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict at the meeting in Kazan.
