Russia Seeks Monitoring Deal to Oversee Armenia-Azeri Truce
- Lavrov says mechanism may be agreed soon with opposing sides
- Humanitarian cease-fire accord broke down twice within hours
A man collects plastic flowers form his damaged home in Terter, Azerbaijan on Oct. 18.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said his country is in talks with Armenia and Azerbaijan on a mechanism to monitor a cease-fire that has already failed twice to halt fighting over the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.
“I hope that we will reach an agreement on such a mechanism in the nearest future,” Lavrov told a news conference in Moscow on Monday. “We need also to substantially speed up efforts for a political resolution.”