Zakharova: First consultations between Armenian and Azeri FMs to be  held soon 

ArmInfo. In the near future, the first consultations between the Foreign  Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan will be held. The official  representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova  announced on July 12 during briefing.

Answering the question regarding the expansion of the office of the  Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, she recalled  that in 2016 the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan discussed steps  aimed at stabilizing the situation in the conflict zone and creating  an atmosphere conducive to the promotion of the peace process. "To  this end, they agreed, in particular, to increase the number of  international observers in the conflict zone, which was discussed  during subsequent contacts of the parties, including the meeting of  the Armenian and Azeri foreign ministers in Krakow at the beginning  of 2017, and a fundamental understanding was reached on the number of  additional observers, places of their deployment, as well as a number  of other related issues, but there is no final decision on them,"  Zakharova said.

He stated that now there is a new leadership in Armenia, which will  discard the prefix "new" in a couple of months. And she added that in  the near future the first ministerial consultations will be held.  "Then, we hope, there will be more meetings, at which the sides will  have an opportunity to consider a wide range of issues of the  Karabakh settlement, including the topic of observers," she summed  up.

The day before was the first one - an introductory meeting of the  Foreign Ministers of the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of  Azerbaijan in Brussels.