France, Russia and US set for talks in coming days to press for Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire

 France's foreign minister said on Wednesday that talks would be held in Geneva on Thursday and Moscow on Monday to try to convince warring sides in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to agree to negotiate a ceasefire.


Jean-Yves Le Drian told the French parliament's foreign affairs committee that France, Russia and the United States would hold those talks to start a dialogue that needed to take place without preconditions.

The foreign minister also accused Turkey of "military involvement" on the side of Azerbaijan in its conflict with Armenia over the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region.

"The new aspect is that there is military involvement by Turkey that risks fuelling the internationalisation of the conflict," French Foreign Minister Le Drian told parliament.