The conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh is just emerging from a hot phase, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said during his meeting with Armenian Foreign Minister Ara Ayvazyan.

We are just coming out of the hot phase of the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. I would like to note the importance, which everyone is forced to recognize today, of the joint statement that was signed by the Prime Minister of Armenia, the President of Azerbaijan and the President of the Russian Federation on November 9, which stopped the war and secured an agreement allowing both refugees and internally displaced persons to return to their homes, Lavrov said.