President Sargsyan stresses importance of investigating ceasefire violations during talks with Putin

YEREVAN, JUNE 20, ARMENPRESS. Creating a mechanism to investigate ceasefire violations would lay a good basis for talks on a settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, Armenia’s President Serzh Sargsyan said at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on June 20 in St. Petersburg, reports TASS.

"Our position on the Karabakh issue is known to all. We wish this issue to be settled exclusively by peaceful means. And I would like to thank Russia as a co-chair of the Minsk Group for the understanding and efforts it pays to this issue," Sargsyan said.

"Regrettably, such conflicts are never settled at the wish of one party. We would be glad if we managed to make progress today towards the implementation of the agreements that we have achieved, in other words, to create mechanisms of investigating ceasefire violations. This would create a good working climate for talks," Sargsyan said.

For his part Putin agreed to discuss all these issues.