MOSCOW, April 2. /TASS/. In a phone call with Azerbaijani President Ilkham Aliyev, Russian President Vladimir Putin emphasized the importance of a dialogue between Baku and Yerevan on the settlement in Nagorno Karabakh, saying he was ready to assist in that matter.

During the telephone conversation, the Azerbaijani leader "shared impressions from his meeting with Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan on the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement that took place in Vienna on March 29," the Kremlin press service said.

"The Russian president emphasized the importance of giving a boost to negotiations between Baku and Yerevan. He expressed Russia’s readiness to continue contribution in the search for the ways to settle the Nagorno Karabakh problem peacefully, in particular within the format of the OSCE Minsk Group," it added.