MINSK. June 7 (Interfax) - Belarus's President Alexander Lukashenko on Friday argued that mediators would be unable to settle the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and said no one else other than Azerbaijan and Armenia would be able to reach a peace deal over Azerbaijan's disputed Armenian-speaking enclave.
"No mediators will solve this problem for you. Only a direct dialogue between the leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia," Lukashenko said after meeting with Azeri Prime Minister Artur Rasizade during a visit to Baku.
Lukashenko also said Belarus might carry out projects worth a total of $1 billion in Azerbaijan.
"The Belarusian head of state said that, at the current stage, trade and economic relations between the two countries are developing quite dynamically but that the states have a large potential for considerable progress in that direction," he said.