FM Mammadyarov to visit Moscow on March 7-8

By  Trend

Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov will pay an official visit to Moscow on March 7-8 at an invitation of his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov.

Russian Foreign Ministry’s Spokesperson Maria Zakharova announced about this at a briefing on March 2.

Earlier Minister Mammadyarov said that he will visit Moscow in March, adding that he intends to discuss the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement during the visit.

“During my visit to Moscow, we will discuss with the Russian side, which for many years is acting as a co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, further actions on the conflict settlement,” he said.

Russia along with the U.S. and France is a co-chair country of the OSCE Minsk Group established to broker a peace to the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

While the OSCE Minsk Group acted as the only mediator in resolution of the conflict, the occupation of the territory of the sovereign State with its internationally recognized boundaries has been left out of due attention of the international community for years.