The President of Georgia, Giorgi Margvelashvili, urged the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan to exert utmost efforts to pacifically settle the currently tense situation in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Margvelashvili made this call during a conference on public diplomacy, which got underway within the framework of NATO Week in Georgia.

“We hope that the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan will make maximum efforts so they can control the strained situation peacefully, diplomatically, with active participation of the international community, so that the conflict is resolved peacefully,” the Georgian president said.