“World community supports quick settlement of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict”, Sergey Lavrov

Baku, April 5 (AzerTAc). "We very deeply worry about the situation which has developed as a result of the conflict between our neighbors which has led to loss of many human lives including innocent people", the Russian minister of foreign affairs Sergey Lavrov told at the meeting with students in the Moscow State Uuniversity's Baku branch. The minister noted that Russia from the very beginning aspired to help to find solution to the conflict. "As a co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, Russia together with the USA and France has made certain proposals for conflict settlement. Personally President Dmitry Medvedev has offered presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia to start to discuss in this format those problems which yet don't allow reaching agreement on settlement. For these two years, the number of questions was essentially reduced. But there are two-three difficult questions to be solved", Lavrov underlined. According to Lavrov, there is no other way to solve the problem except peaceful solution. "The military way of solution would be a catastrophe", he stressed. “On settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict there is a political will of the international community”. At the same time, he noted that the intermediaries can't solve this problem for Azerbaijan and Armenia, but "can help with search of compromises". At his words, “the world community is for quick settlement of the conflict, but the final decision should be made by Baku and Yerevan”.