Moscow thinks that the Karabakh conflict has come up in talks between Ankara and Yerevan on normalizing bilateral relations, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrey Nesterenko said on Tuesday.
He was asked at a regular Foreign Ministry press briefing to comment on Armenian-Turkish rapprochement and to what extent it was linked to the settlement of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh.
"The normalization of relations between Armenia and Turkey has its autonomous significance in the sense that this is the normalization of relations between two countries that have experienced difficult times in their relations," Nesterenko said.
"As far as we know, questions about Nagorno-Karabakh have also been raised during the talks process on the Yerevan-Ankara axis. It looks as though the process is also taking into account this package of issues. We shall hope that this will all be resolved in accordance with existing decisions and through international organizations and will meet the hopes of all the countries of the region."