YEREVAN. June 23 (Interfax) - The presidents of Armenia an Azerbaijan should continue direct dialogue, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
"We will work on continuing the direct dialogue between the presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia, which has now resumed," he told a press conference in Yerevan following negotiations with Armenian Foreign Minister Edvard Nalbandyan.
Russia is interested in the prompt settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh issue, Lavrov said. "We are working on the assumption that this problem can be resolved on the basis of the principles stated in the statements by the presidents of Russia, the U.S., and France," he said.
The only thing left to now is to agree on the sequence of the steps that need to be taken to implement these principles, Lavrov said.
"The more regular the presidents meet, the faster the negotiation process will be," Lavrov said.