Status quo in the Nagorno Karabakh conflict must be overcome, but first the Armenian troops need to be withdrawn from the region, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said at a meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Monday, June 20.

“As Russia and the OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs said, the status quo is unacceptable,” Aliyev said.

Earlier, Putin met with Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan.

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