Russian, Armenian, Azeri leaders to discuss Karabakh principles

Sergei Prikhodko told journalists that there were no plans to sign any agreements after the presidents' discussions.

The presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Serzh Sargsyan and Ilham Aliyev, held one-on-one talks in Moscow on Friday, the latest in a series of discussions since Russian President Dmitry Medvedev brought the two sides back to the negotiating table last year.

Friday's meeting focused on the principles for resolving the dispute agreed at an internationally mediated conference in Madrid in 2007.

Nagorny Karabakh, a region in Azerbaijan with a largely Armenian population, has been a source of conflict between the former Soviet republics since the late 1980s. The province has its own government and is de facto independent, Kazinform refers to RA Novosti.

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