Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has taken recent steps to reconvene talks between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Given substantive efforts led by the EU and OSCE to support a peaceful settlement between Armenia and Azerbaijan, HMG has no plans to convene further talks between the parties. We remain in close contact with partners and continue to support these international efforts to resolve outstanding issues and ensure stability and security in the region. These are the messages I reinforced during calls with the Armenian and Azerbaijani Foreign Ministers on 15 and 17 September respectively, and subsequently in meetings in London with the Armenian and Azerbaijani Ambassadors and other senior officials from both countries on 12 December and 9 November respectively.