<p>The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan were in Moscow on Wednesday for meetings with Russia's top diplomat Sergei Lavrov as world powers seek to halt fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh.</p>.<p>The ministers were visiting the Russian capital, their respective ministries said as the pair are due to meet with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday.</p>.<p>They have ruled out a trilateral meeting and will meet Pompeo separately.</p>.<p>Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov arrived in Moscow for "consultations with the Russian side," the ministry said in a statement.</p>.<p>His Armenian counterpart Zohrab Mnatsakanyan was set to meet with Lavrov in Moscow "to discuss the situation in Karabakh and the implementation of a ceasefire agreement," ministry spokeswoman Anna Nagdalyan said.</p>.<p>It was not immediately clear if the two diplomats would meet Lavrov jointly or separately.</p>.<p>World powers including Russia and the United States have expressed dismay that there has been no let-up in more than three weeks of fighting over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.</p>.<p>A truce was agreed in Moscow earlier this month after 11 hours of talks, but the accord had next to no impact on the ground.</p>.<p>A second ceasefire agreed Saturday fell apart almost immediately.</p>.<p>Yerevan says 772 Armenian soldiers and 36 civilians have been killed in the flare-up of fighting.</p>.<p>Baku has reported 63 civilian casualties but has yet to disclose military losses.</p>.<p>Azerbaijan and the Armenian separatists who control its Karabakh region have been locked in a bitter impasse over the fate of the mountainous province since a war in the 1990s that left 30,000 people dead.</p>.<p>Their long-simmering conflict erupted again on September 27 in fierce clashes that raised the alarm over the failure of decades-long international mediation.</p>.<p>Along with France and Russia, the United States co-chairs the so-called Minsk Group of international mediators to the Karabakh peace talks since the 1994 ceasefire.</p>.<p>Baku says its forces have captured ground within Karabakh and that it also now controls Azerbaijani territory that had been held by Armenian forces.</p>
<p>The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan were in Moscow on Wednesday for meetings with Russia's top diplomat Sergei Lavrov as world powers seek to halt fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh.</p>.<p>The ministers were visiting the Russian capital, their respective ministries said as the pair are due to meet with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday.</p>.<p>They have ruled out a trilateral meeting and will meet Pompeo separately.</p>.<p>Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov arrived in Moscow for "consultations with the Russian side," the ministry said in a statement.</p>.<p>His Armenian counterpart Zohrab Mnatsakanyan was set to meet with Lavrov in Moscow "to discuss the situation in Karabakh and the implementation of a ceasefire agreement," ministry spokeswoman Anna Nagdalyan said.</p>.<p>It was not immediately clear if the two diplomats would meet Lavrov jointly or separately.</p>.<p>World powers including Russia and the United States have expressed dismay that there has been no let-up in more than three weeks of fighting over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.</p>.<p>A truce was agreed in Moscow earlier this month after 11 hours of talks, but the accord had next to no impact on the ground.</p>.<p>A second ceasefire agreed Saturday fell apart almost immediately.</p>.<p>Yerevan says 772 Armenian soldiers and 36 civilians have been killed in the flare-up of fighting.</p>.<p>Baku has reported 63 civilian casualties but has yet to disclose military losses.</p>.<p>Azerbaijan and the Armenian separatists who control its Karabakh region have been locked in a bitter impasse over the fate of the mountainous province since a war in the 1990s that left 30,000 people dead.</p>.<p>Their long-simmering conflict erupted again on September 27 in fierce clashes that raised the alarm over the failure of decades-long international mediation.</p>.<p>Along with France and Russia, the United States co-chairs the so-called Minsk Group of international mediators to the Karabakh peace talks since the 1994 ceasefire.</p>.<p>Baku says its forces have captured ground within Karabakh and that it also now controls Azerbaijani territory that had been held by Armenian forces.</p>