YEREVAN. July 16 (Interfax) - Armenian Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandian has said that he is not going to discuss the handover of the Lachin and Kelbadzhar districts to Azerbaijan at a meeting with Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov.
"Armenia has never discussed the handover of the Lachin and Kelbadzhar districts with Azerbaijan. Nor was this issue discussed at the presidents' meeting in St. Petersburg," Nalbandian said on Public Television of Armenia.
Mammadyarov said earlier that at the upcoming meeting with Nalbandian he expects to clarify when Armenia is going to withdraw troops from the Lachin and Kelbadzhar districts.
Baku lost control over Nagorno-Karabakh and seven neighboring districts as a result of a conflict with Yerevan in the 1990s, which forced nearly one million Azeri people to flee their homes.
The UN Security Council has adopted a number of resolutions condemning the occupation of Azerbaijan's territories and demanding the withdrawal of Armenian servicemen from the region.
Azerbaijan and Armenia have been negotiating a solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict through third-party mediators from the U.S., Russia and France, which co-chair the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Minsk Group.