The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict can be resolved only through negotiations. Switzerland FM Didier Burkhalter said the aforementioned today at the meeting with the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan and President of Azerbaijan Ilham Alivey in Bern.

“At the meeting with the two parties today, Federal Councillor Didier Burkhalter highlighted that the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict could only be resolved by a comprehensive negotiation process,” Switzerland MFA’s statement reads.

Mr Burkhalter “called on the parties to reinforce dialogue and to refrain from any act of violence or provocation." In his words, Switzerland is committed to “continue supporting the dialogue between Armenia and Azerbaijan in hosting meetings and offering experts also in the future.” 

“The South Caucasus is a priority region of Switzerland’s peace-policy commitment,” Didier Burkhalter noted.  During its year as Chair of OSCE in 2014, Switzerland “advocated the OSCE’s existing mediation formats and also supported various confidence-building measures, as well as seeking close contact with civil society,” he said, TASS reports.