Russian Foreign Minister Discussed Karabakh Conflict with OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs

As previously agreed, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday met with OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs Robert Bradtke (USA), Bernard Fassier (France) and Igor Popov (Russia), as well as Personal Representative of the OSCE Chair-in-Office, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk.

During the consultation, the parties discussed further progress of Minsk Group co-chairs, as well as subsequent efforts by Russia, the US and France to mediate the talks, considering the trilateral meeting on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in Kazan on Jun. 24.

Note, the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh broke away from Azerbaijan after a bloody war in the 1990s and is populated mainly by ethnic Armenians. Today it exists as a de-facto independent state under an uneasy ceasefire, and OSCE-brokered efforts to resolve its status have so far been unsuccessful.