Kremlin refutes organizing Armenian, Azeri presidents' meeting

PanARMENIAN.Net - Reports that Kremlin has allegedly offered to organize a meeting of Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents Serzh Sargsyan and Ilham Aliyev in Moscow are not true, Russian president's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday, July 20.

"We saw an article in Izvestia from July 17 under the headline 'Moscow organizing meeting of leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan' and would like to note the inaccuracies," Peskov said, according to TASS.

"It cites Russian foreign ministry sources as saying that at alleged talks of Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov with his Armenian and Azeri counterparts on the margins of an OSCE foreign ministers meeting in Mauerbach, a proposal was made to organize a summit of the leaders of the South Caucasus states in Russia . This is not true."

Not all the abovementioned ministers were in Austria at that time, Peskov added.

"The Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign policy chiefs were meeting the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs in Brussels," he said

At the Brussels-hosted meeting on July 11, the co-chairs proposed to organize a meeting of Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents in New York to discuss the conflict in Nagorno Karabakh.