American Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group welcomes initiative of Russia's Vladimir Putin to organize meetings with Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders.

“We welcome Putin's initiative to meet with the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan. We urge strict respect for the ceasefire. #Nkpeace,” James Warlick tweeted.

As reported earlier, Serzh Sargsyan will leave for a working visit to Sochi on Friday. On the next day he will meet with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.

The Armenian side expressed readiness to hold a trilateral meeting with the presidents of Russia and Azerbaijan to discuss peaceful settlement of Karabakh conflict as well as situation resulted in recent escalation provoked by Azerbaijan.