The comprehensive settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict under the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairing mandate will greatly contribute to the establishment of peace in the South Caucasus, Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan told the sitting of the Council of Foreign Ministers (CFA) of the CIS member states on Thursday, October 14.

Mirzoyan stressed the importance of CIS member states committing to the principles of sovereignty, equality of peoples and the right to self-determination, inviolability of state borders, non-use of force and peaceful settlement of disputes.

The Armenian foreign policy chief stressed the need for the immediate release of Armenian prisoners of war and other detainees, for the preservation the Armenian cultural heritage territories under the control of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Russian and Azerbaijani Presidents Vladimir Putin and Ilham Aliyev on November 9 signed a statement to end the war in Karabakh after almost 45 days. Under the deal, the Armenian side returned all the seven regions surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh, having lost a part of Karabakh itself in hostilities.