5 April 2016, 10:55 GMT
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — All sides are exerting efforts so as not to renew shelling in Nagorno-Karabakh, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday.
"Everyone is making efforts for the fire to cease and not resume again," Lavrov told reporters.
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict began in 1988, when the Armenian-dominated autonomous region sought to secede from the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, before proclaiming independence after the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991.
In September 2015, the conflict escalated, with the sides blaming each other for breaching the truce.
