During the phone conversation, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov and Minister of Foreign Affairs of France Jean-Yves Le Drian emphasized the importance of showing political will to stop hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh by the opposing parties. This was stated in a message from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation circulated on Wednesday.
“Sergey Lavrov and Jean-Yves Le Drian highlighted the importance of showing political will to stop hostilities by the opposing parties”, the document says.
Within the conversation, the Ministers substantially discussed the developments in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone, expressed their serious concern over the ongoing large-scale hostilities and called on the opposing parties to achieve a quick and full ceasefire and de-escalation of tensions”, the Ministry says.
The parties stressed that there was no alternative to diplomatic resolution of the conflict and emphasized the need to continue concerted actions of the co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group. “Possible scenarios of further developments were considered”, the Ministry noted.
Lavrov and Le Drian also touched upon the issue of cooperation between the national law enforcement agencies of the two countries, including in light of a possible visit of French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin to Russia. “The Ministers considered a number of relevant issues on the bilateral agenda. The emphasis was placed on the need to develop cooperation of law enforcement agencies, including in the context of a possible visit of French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin to Russia to discuss a large range of issues related to countering terrorism and extremist ideology”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs noted.
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Based on materials from TASS