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Consultations on resolving the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh within the OSCE Minsk Group held earlier in Geneva will continue on Friday in Moscow, a diplomatic source informed TASS.

"The talks with Azerbaijan’s top diplomat will continue today, but in Moscow [not in Geneva]," the source noted. "The Minsk Group co-chairs are flying to Moscow," he said, adding that "the talks in Geneva ended at 1am on Friday [02:00 Moscow time - TASS]."

The Geneva consultations, which began on Thursday and ended after midnight, were held behind closed doors. Neither the place nor the time of their beginning and end were announced, the agency said.

To note, earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin invited the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan to visit Moscow on October 9. Putin called to cease the current hostilities in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone for humanitarian reasons, with the aim to carry out a swap of dead bodies and prisoners. Russia's foreign ministry has confirmed that the two ministers gave consent to participate in the consultations.