MOSCOW. Dec 2 (Interfax) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at a meeting with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Baku on Monday that Russia is interested in fulfilling the agreements on confidence-building measures as part of the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh crisis.
"We want those agreements on confidence-building measures and on establishing humanitarian contacts, specifically those between media outlets, which were reached at the Vienna summit and reconfirmed at the ministerial meeting in Moscow, to be implemented," Lavrov said in his opening remarks at a meeting with Aliyev published on the Russian Foreign Ministry website.
These agreements "are being gradually fulfilled," the minister said. He said he hopes that a meeting between the Azerbaijani and Armenian foreign ministers scheduled this week "will make it possible to consolidate these processes."
Lavrov shared Aliyev's opinion that "a lot is yet to be done in terms of long-term political settlement."
"I totally back your suggestion that any rhetoric, which is at odds with the fundamental principles, which were approved by both sides and formalized in the UN Charter and the Helsinki Final Act, should be avoided here," the Russian Foreign Ministry quoted Lavrov's words.