International mediators voiced misgivings about the planned launch of commercial flights from Armenia to Nagorno-Karabakh on Thursday as they visited Stepanakert at the start of a new round of regional shuttle diplomacy.
"We think that the launch of the [Stepanakert] airport in the existing situation can cause tension in relations between the parties," said Igor Popov, a Russian diplomat co-chairing the OSCE Minsk Group along with fellow envoys from the United States and France.
"At the same time we think that the issue should be settled through diplomatic means based on the existing [international] experience," Popov told journalists after the co-chairs held talks with Bako Sahakian, the president of the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR).
Armenian News
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