Italy is ready to render necessary assistance for the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement that suits to both conflict parties. Italian deputy foreign minister Margerita Bonivery has stated that in Baku. According to her, the issue of Nagorno-Karabakh was the key topic of the negotiations with Azeri president Heydar Aliyev. The parties had the opinion on the question of participation of Italy as an OSCE Minsk group co-chair in the process of the Karabakh opposition settlement.