“Possible ways of resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict will be discussed at the meeting between the foreign ministers of Russia and France, the two OSCE Minsk Group co-chairing countries, in Paris on June 29. The ministers will also exchange views on the outcomes of the high-level meetings on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict which were held in Vienna in May and in St. Petersburg in June,” Zakharova said .

“It is important not to diminish the positive result by public rhetoric, it must be preserved for the implementation of concrete steps,” she said during the daily briefing. “There are topics that demand silence since here diplomats and experts must work,” she stated.

Eduard Sharmazanov, NA Deputy Speaker, stated that this is an agreement coming from interests of Armenia and it should be ratified. In his words, as compared to Belarus and Kazakhstan, which signed a united system with Russia, in case of Armenia, it’s a unified system, that is, Armenia’s air defense maintains its independence and will be headed by Armenia.

Report informs, it was said in the message of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to the participants of the OSCE security conference opened today in Vienna, read out by the Director General of the UN Office in Geneva Michael Moller.

“This information is contradictory what the outcome is, so the MG needs to clarify if the position of the Azerbaijani side has changed, well, then the MG needs to negotiate a way forward. There is so much unclear information here that it’s difficult to say much more on it specifically.”

“We have been at war for over 25 years. The only thing, which may freeze the situation, may be a united organization, engaging regional states. However, today I consider this less probable, as there are many players acting against it. First and foremost, if we intend to establish peace in the region, we need to invest all our efforts to shrink Turkey’s influence in this region. As long as Turkey is here, there will be no peace in the region. It appears as a state-terminator not only in the Caucasus, but in the Middle East as well. It destroys all the states.”

Bryza stated that the Minsk Group should obviously sit down with president Aliyev and ask him for clarification, because what was announced after this most recent meeting of the presidents, that president Putin appeared in St. Petersburg, that they have agreed to develop that mechanism.

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The press service of MFA Armenia informed that the German Foreign Minister will be received by Armenian President. Talks between Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Germany will take place on June 29, after which Edward Nalbandian and Frank-Walter Steinmeier will deliver a joint press conference.

In his letter, Erdogan called Russia “a friend and a strategic partner” of Ankara, with whom the Turkish authorities would not want to spoil relations. “We never had a desire or a deliberate intention to down an aircraft belonging to Russia,” the letter read, according to a statement published on the Kremlin website. According to the statement, Erdogan’s letter stressed that “the Turkish side undertook all the risks and made a great effort to recover the body of the Russian pilot from the Syrian opposition, bringing it to Turkey.