Itar-Tass -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will meet with his counterparts, Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan and Serzh Sargsyan of Armenia, in Sochi on Monday to discuss the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the Kremlin press service reported.

Upon the results of the first tripartite meeting in Barvikha “the presidents signed the Declaration of the Azerbaijani Republic, the Republic of Armenia and the Russian Federation, which confirmed the striving for attaining a political settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict under the international law, the support for the mediating efforts of the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group (Russia, the United States and France) and the agreements reached between the presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia to intensify the negotiating process and to promote the creation of conditions for building up trust.”

“A forthcoming meeting in the tripartite format is intended to confirm Russia’s intention to continue an active mediating assistance to the parties to the conflict in order to find a mutually acceptable solution to the Nagorno Karabakh problem, particularly within the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group,” the Russian presidential press service reported.

“Along with the Nagorno Karabakh settlement problem the presidents will discuss topical issues of regional cooperation (with due account of Russia’s current presidency in the CIS as of January 1, 2010), the measures that are being taken within the framework of regional integration unions to overcome the negative aftermaths of the world financial and economic crisis, as well as the situation in the Caucasus region,” the Kremlin press service said.

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