For the first time within the recent years a unique document has appeared on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, and the sides coordinated their positions on a number of items, Director of the Fourth CIS States Department, RF Foreign Ministry, Andrey Kelin stated in his interview with APA.

“The negotiations are closed and we do not publicize the details. It would be better if we do not go into details. For the first time within the recent years there is a unique a unique document. There are 17 principles in this document. Among them there are fully coordinated principles, but there are principles on which there is a fundamental divergence between the sides. For the present it is impossible to find a solution, but I want to underline that there are not so many uncoordinated principles. If there is a political will, I think it will not be difficult to reach a compromise,” he said.

Kelin pointed out that a settlement of the conflict requires a serious impulse.

“If we do not do this, the situation will continue to tense. Anyway the situation is tense enough, shootings continue on the line of contact, the number of incidents is increasing, both sides are gaining strength. So, there are threats that sooner or later the escalation of the incidents will turn into a large-scale tension,” he said.

Russia is trying to act simultaneously with both Yerevan and Baku, not be equally-spaced, but equally close.

“Both sides are our important allies. We have got good relations with both countries,” he said.

Regards the efficiency of the OSCE Minsk Group format, Kelin said: “The format is not the case. The question is the desire and will of the persons, who will realize the process of resolution. Minsk Group has justified itself, though there were efforts to extend its composition. Turkey has recently attempted to actively participate in this. We consider it counterproductive, as we have a unique situation, when the positions of US, France and Russia coincide and this allows us to be the guarantor of the process. France and US support us in this issue,” he said.