MOSCOW. April 28 (Interfax) - The foreign ministers of Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia underscored the commitment to existing agreements on the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement process at their trilateral meeting in Moscow on Friday and agreed to continue contacts, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
"During the meeting, the parties continued to discuss prospects for promoting the negotiating process on the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement and stressed the need to implement the agreements reached at the summits in Vienna and St. Petersburg in April and June 2016," the Russian ministry said on its website.
"The ministers agreed to continue contacts on all of the issues that were discussed," it said.
"Following the trilateral talks, the ministers of Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia met with the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen - the ambassadors from Russia, the U.S. and France - and with the representative of the OSCE chairperson-in-office to exchange opinions on the situation in the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement process," the ministry said.
For his part, Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesman Hikmet Hajiyev told Interfax that "during the meeting, the sides comprehensively discussed the substantive talks that were held at the level of presidents in Vienna and St. Petersburg in 2016."
"The foreign ministers will brief their heads of state on the results of the trilateral meeting," he said.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said at a press briefing on Thursday that the "talks will be held behind closed doors," but they would not be classified.