4 Jul 2016 14:09

Russia makes colossal efforts to settle Karabakh conflict - Russian Foreign Ministry

YEREVAN. July 4 (Interfax) - Russia is committed to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement, Russian Foreign Ministry said.

"Currently Armenia and the Armenian people have a very vital issue, the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement," Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova told reporters in Yerevan on Monday.

"That is precisely why Sergei Lavrov is holding bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Council of Foreign Ministers, that is precisely why we are making colossal efforts for the settlement to be successful," she said, adding that she was referring to Russia's mediating role in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement.