The Russian MFA ha removed from its website part of the statement concerning the summit on Karabakh.

The original text of the statement regarding the meeting of the Russian Deputy FM Grigory Karasin and French Ambassador to Russia J.-M. Ripert read: “The meeting addressed issues related to the international efforts towards solving the crisis in Ukraine, as well as the preparation to the tripartite summit on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement in Saint Petersburg.”

The changed version of the statement lacks the part on the aforementioned summit: “The meeting addressed issues related to the international efforts towards solving the crisis in Ukraine, as well as problems concerning the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement.”