U.S. and Russian Presidents discussed Nagorno-Karabakh settlement

In the course of a telephone conversation today, the President of the United States and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama discussed issues of bilateral coordination in order to help resolve regional and international issues, the official website of the Kremlin reported.

"As heads of states, co-chairing the OSCE Minsk Group, Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama exchanged views on the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh conflict," said in the report.

The U.S. President highly appreciated the efforts made by his Russian counterpart in this regard, in particular, in a recent meeting with the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Kazan.

Also, both sides expressed the intention to continue to take coordinated steps in order to facilitate the search of peaceful solution to the problem in Baku and Yerevan.

At the end of the meeting held in Kazan, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has prepared a message of the presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sargsyan to the proposals on the vision of the Nagorno Karabakh issue that was discussed recently in the form of three presidents and with the participation of representatives of the OSCE Minsk Group - Russia, USA and France. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov gave those proposals during his visits to Baku and Yerevan on 7-8 July.


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