Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan sounded optimistic about the normalization of Armenia’s relations with Turkey on Friday just as Turkish President Erdogan Recep Tayyip again demanded that Yerevan open a special transport corridor for Azerbaijan.
Deputy Foreign Minister Vahan Kostanian on Friday downplayed Armenia’s unprecedented tensions with Russia and insisted that Yerevan is not radically changing its traditional foreign policy.
The Armenian Foreign Ministry summoned the Russian ambassador in Yerevan on Tuesday to condemn Russia’s leading state-run broadcaster for disparaging Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian during an hour-long program aired on Monday.
President Vladimir Putin appeared to downplay Russia’s rift with Armenia on Friday, saying he will visit the South Caucasus country again despite its acceptance of jurisdiction of an international court that issued an arrest warrant for him in March.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on Thursday claimed that Russian peacekeepers could not have thwarted Azerbaijan’s September 19-20 military offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh and blamed it on Armenia’s recognition of Azerbaijani sovereignty over the region.
Russia accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian of seeking to ruin Russian-Armenian relations and reorient his country towards the West on Monday as it rejected his claims that Moscow has failed to protect Nagorno-Karabakh’s population against ethnic cleansing and guarantee Armenia’s security.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday defended Russian peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh accused by Armenia of not protecting the region’s population against Azerbaijani attacks.
Turkey has no business deciding how long Russian peacekeepers should remain stationed in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
Russia supports Turkey’s and Armenia’s efforts to normalize bilateral relations, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov reiterated during a visit to Ankara on Friday.
A peace deal put forward by the United States requires Armenia to recognize Nagorno-Karabakh as an integral part of Azerbaijan, Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed on Thursday.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on Friday that Armenia must accept his terms of a bilateral peace treaty and open a land corridor connecting Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave.
Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other of not honoring their Russian-brokered agreements during Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s latest visit to Baku concluded on Friday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian again criticized the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) on Monday for not openly siding with Armenia in its border dispute with Azerbaijan.
Russia has again accused Western powers of undercutting the OSCE Minsk Group and trying to hijack Russian efforts to broker peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Russia on Friday accused Western powers of seeking to sideline it, hijack Armenian-Azerbaijani peace talks and use the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in their standoff with Moscow over Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron have pledged to continue jointly seeking an end to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict through the OSCE Minsk Group co-headed by their countries and the United States.
Special envoys of Turkey and Armenia held in Moscow on Friday the first round of negotiations on normalizing relations between the two neighboring states.
The Russian Foreign Ministry slammed Armenian parliament speaker Alen Simonian on Friday for his reported claim that Russia sought to restore Azerbaijani control over Nagorno-Karabakh through peace proposals made before last year’s war.
Senior Russian, Armenian and Azerbaijani officials were meeting in Moscow on Wednesday to try to hammer out final details of an anticipated agreement on restoring transport links between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
The Kremlin has said that Russian President Vladimir Putin is poised to organize fresh talks between the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan one year after brokering a ceasefire that stopped the war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
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