The hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh were managed to be stopped through the mediation of the Russian Federation, said Anatoly Sidorov, Chief of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Zvezda television reported.

"The agreements reached so far contribute to the creation of the necessary conditions for the end of the political settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh crisis," Sidorov added at a press briefing.