The meeting in St. Petersburg was a disappointment in that little progress was made from the meeting of the co-chairs in Vienna on May 16. There was no mention of two significant measures promised in Vienna: a commitment to “resuming negotiations on a comprehensive settlement” and the creation of an “investigation mechanism” for violations of the ceasefire.
The Karabakh Line of Contact remained calm last night despite sporadic and aimless Azerbaijani small arms fire, the NKR Ministry of Defense reports.