Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- The Republic of Uzbekistan, as a country chairing the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, welcomes the achievement of a truce and an end to the escalation on the Azerbaijani-Armenian border, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan said in a statement.

Uzbekistan is confident that the only right way to resolve all issues and existing problems is the path of peaceful negotiations and consultations based on international law and within the framework of previously reached agreements, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry said.

“We hope for strict observance of the terms of the ceasefire, the exercise of maximum restraint and call on the parties to political and diplomatic negotiations to normalize the situation and get out of the current situation,” the statement concludes.