MOSCOW. – As part of recent telephone contacts between Russian President Vladimir Putin, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held separate meetings of with Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov and Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan on Tuesday and Wednesday in Moscow, the Russian Foreign Ministry reports.

Urgent issues related to the implementation of earlier agreements reached on the ceasefire in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone and the creation of conditions for its lasting settlement were discussed during the talks.