Work on settlement of the Karabakh conflict will continue in the near future, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a press conference on Wednesday.

“We noted that in Kazan the presidents spoke about agreeing on important issues which contribute to creation of conditions for achieving a final agreement,” he said, Russian Vesti reports.

The meeting of Armenian, Azerbaijani held on the initiative of Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev took place in Kazan on June 24. The sides failed to agree on Basic principles of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement despite the calls of OSCE Minsk Group co-chairing states Russia, U.S. and France.

In a statement issued after the meeting the presidents noted “the achievement of mutual understanding on a number of issues. Solution of these issues contributes to creating conditions for the approval of the basic principles.”