Dialogue on Karabakh still does not give serious progress, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a press conference in Vienna.

Sergey Lavrov noted that the attitude toward the settlement of a crisis always combines two approaches:" These are certain basic principles and direct contacts between the parties, search for a balance of interests, implementation of the agreements reached at different stages, so that later there would not be a rollback.

“In each conflict, it is necessary to understand what is priority. But it is also necessary to rely on certain common approaches. Among these approaches, first of all, is a direct dialogue between the sides of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,” he noted.

Lavrov regretted that the dialogue has not yielded significant progress so far. "However, there is a positive moment – this year's dialogue was at the level of presidents and several times at the level of foreign ministers,” he added.

The Russian FM also noted his country will continue collective work with the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs.

"The collective approach contains the solution principles that the sides have accepted, but have not implemented yet. This is a tough task, but we continue to deal with it,” Lavrov said.