Azerbaijan: Yerevan and Baku want to negotiate over Karabakh conflict - Medvedev

Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev commented on his recent negotiations with the Armenian and Azerbaijani leadership, during a press conference in Baku, Friday.
Medvedev confirmed that the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict had topped the agenda of both meetings. "The most important thing I have managed to determine at the moment is that both sides and the leaders of the two countries are certainly willing to maintain the ceasefire and try to settle at the negotiating table, the existing disagreements; the conflict, all the negative consequences of what has happened recently," he stated.
The Russian prime minister went on to say that "the only thing I have not heard during my negotiations with our Armenian and Azerbaijani colleagues, the only thing I have not heard from heads of state, nor from prime ministers, is that the conflict could be settled only with the use of military [force]."
"On the contrary, everybody has said that the de-escalation of this very complicated conflict is to be achieved through negotiations," Medvedev added.
Earlier on Friday, Medvedev noted during a press conference that the Russian government "totally support the idea of a peaceful settlement of the conflict," before adding that "there is no alternative to negotiations and a peaceful settlement."