The group's message is quoted by TASS.

“The co-chair countries call on Armenia and Azerbaijan to use the current ceasefire to conclude a long-term and lasting peace agreement under the auspices of the Minsk Group co-chairs,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian and US First Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Bigan said ...

They also called on Baku and Yerevan to prepare conditions for the visit of representatives of the co-chairing countries, so that “substantive negotiations can begin to resolve all unresolved issues in accordance with the agreed schedule”.

Earlier, Lavrov discussed on the phone with his Azerbaijani counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov the implementation of agreements on Karabakh.

Russian President Vladimir Putin noted that the trilateral statement on Karabakh is being consistently implemented.

On the night of November 10, Putin, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan signed a statement on a ceasefire in Karabakh.