The settlement of the Karabakh conflict depends on the good will of the parties concerned. MP of Russia’s State Duma Sergey Mironov, who is also the Chairman of “A Just Russia” party, told the aforementioned to haqqin.az.

According to him, in the conditions of the hard situation preserved round the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Russia plays an active role in providing mediatory support to the conflicting parties. The Russian side positively treats the advancement of the political dialogue at the highest level aimed at the exclusively peaceful, as well as political and diplomatic settlement of the conflict.  

In Mironov’s words, the summit held is a certain stage in the work on the settlement,  resumed last year in Sochi and continued later in Wales and Paris. He also noted that the mediatory activity of co-chairmen in the framework of the Minsk Group will continue. Apart from this, the Russian Federation will initiate independent efforts – as it did before – to help the countries reach a compromise on the basis of the approaches agreed with the co-chairs, he noted.   

“I’m sure, that this decades-old conflict can be resolved only through negotiations. Here everything depends on the good will of the parties concerned. The efforts of the solution by force will only deteriorate the situation and create additional “debris” on the way to the peaceful settlement. It remains to be seen what the final formula for the reliable conflict settlement will be,” the politician stressed.

Mironov added that the search for the exclusively peaceful settlement of the issue is also important since in the immediate vicinity to Karabakh, the war in Syria is underway, ISIS banned in Russia is acting there and the situation in the Middle East is destabilized.