Artsakh President Bako Sahakyan on February 20 issued a congratulatory message on the country's Revival Day.

From the Artsakh side, the monitoring mission was accompanied by Foreign and Defense Ministry representatives.

The Karabakh frontline units refrained from retaliating to continue controlling the situation on the contact line.

De Waal says this has to happen but the Azerbaijani side is very over-optimistic about how possible this is.

“We perform our mediation function in good faith and, it seems to me, we do a quality job," said Maria Zakharova.

“Our government has adopted a policy on the Karabakh conflict which former authorities have never opted for,” Pashinyan said.

According to Karasin, the co-chairs of the Minsk Group are working on new meetings of the leaders of the two countries.

White House national security adviser John Bolton had a telephone call with Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev.

The Karabakh frontline units refrained from retaliating continue controlling the situation on the contact line.

Normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations is impossible without the resolution of the Karabakh conflict, Cavusoglu said.