U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon hopes for further Nagorno-Karabakh peace process within the OSCE Minsk Group. In an interview with the Kyrgyz service of RFE/Radio Liberty, he expressed hope for further negotiations and for Armenia and Azerbaijan to reach an agreement on the basic settlement principle as soon as possible.

The U.N. Secretary General urged Armenia and Azerbaijan to refrain from any provocations and withdraw snipers from the contact line. It wll help all the sides contributing to the peace process.