October 22, 2008 - 19:45 AMT
Armenian, Azerbaijani, Russian Presidents' meeting to convey impulse to Karabakh talks
A meeting between Armenian, Azerbaijani and Russian Presidents will convey an impulse to Karabakh talks, a Russian Duma member said.

"I am confident that a trilateral meeting will help improvement of the situation," Viktor Zavarzin said.

"The OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs paid 5 visits to the region during 2008. They decided to brisk up shuttle diplomacy to finally coordinate the basic principles and maintain the progress fixed in the negotiation process earlier," he said.

"The resolution of the conflict is possible only with observation of international norms and should satisfy all parties to conflict," he added, United Russia Party's website reports.

When in Yerevan, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said that the Presidents of Armenia, Russia and Azerbaijan will meet in Moscow in the near future to discuss the Karabakh issue.