France welcomes the agreement reached between Armenia and Azerbaijan on a ceasefire for humanitarian purposes, in Nagorno-Karabakh.
"Now it is necessary to closely monitor it in order to create conditions for a final cessation of hostilities.
Substantive discussions in which the parties participated under the auspices of the Minsk Group, should be resumed without preconditions. France continues to work together to make its contribution in this context", the French Foreign Ministry said in a
statement.