Issue of Nagorno-Karabakh settlement 'needs silence' - Russian diplomat

The issue of the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement demands silence, Russia's Foreign Ministry official spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Tuesday speaking about the outcome of the trilateral talks in St. Petersburg between the Russian, Azerbaijani and Armenian leaders.


"It is important not to diffuse the achieved positive in public rhetoric, it needs to be preserved in order to implement it in certain steps," the diplomat said. "There are issues that need silence as diplomats and experts should work here," she added.


Zakharova said she understands the interest of mass media to the issue, but "there is difference between informing and using the public space for tug-of-war." "It is important to do so that the solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh problem translates into a concrete real action," she stressed.


At the meeting in St. Petersburg on June 20, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Armenian and Azerbaijani counterparts Serzh Sargsyan and Ilham Aliyev adopted a trilateral statement expressing commitment to the normalization the situation along the engagement line in Nagorno-Karabakh.


The situation along the contact line of conflicting sides in Nagorno-Karabakh, a disputed territory between Armenia and Azerbaijan, deteriorated dramatically overnight to April 2 when fierce clashes began. The parties to the conflict accused each other of violating the truce. At a meeting of chiefs of General Staff of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Moscow an agreement was reached on the ceasefire from noon local time (0800GMT) on April 5. Since then, the sides have reported ceasefire violations along the contact line.

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