Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that a Russian-brokered agreement that stopped the war in Nagorno-Karabakh may have laid the groundwork for an eventual resolution of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict.
Russia is confident that Armenia will fulfill its commitments under a Moscow-brokered deal signed with Azerbaijan on November 10 to end six-week hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday.
Moscow is doing everything in its power to put an end to the armed conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh as soon as possible, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a meeting with representatives of religious organizations on Wednesday.
A sustainable ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh would be difficult to achieve without agreements on effective control mechanisms, according to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
Russia welcomed on Monday U.S. efforts to stop hostilities in and around Nagorno-Karabakh which have resulted in yet another Armenian-Azerbaijani ceasefire agreement.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday called for an end to hostilities around Nagorno-Karabakh and said Russia will fulfill its defense obligations to Armenia.
The Armenian military said on Tuesday that it will closely watch joint Turkish-Azerbaijani war games that will start on Wednesday two weeks after deadly fighting on Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan.
Scores Arrested After Armenian-Azeri Violence In Moscow
Russia called for an immediate end to heavy fighting which continued on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border for the second consecutive day on Monday.
Seventy-five Armenian soldiers marched through Moscow’s Red Square on Wednesday in a Russian military parade that marked the 75th anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin dismissed on Tuesday Armenia’s and Belarus’s persistent calls for the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) to set uniform energy tariffs which would reduce the cost of Russian natural gas imported by them.
The Russian government has waived its ban on commercial flights abroad to allow at least 400 citizens of Armenia to return home from Russia because of the coronavirus epidemic.
Armenia on Friday denied Azerbaijan’s claims that the foreign ministers of the two states discussed a framework peace agreement on Nagorno-Karabakh during their talks held in Bratislava last week.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has criticized Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian for describing Nagorno-Karabakh as an integral part of Armenia, saying that such statements hamper efforts to end the Karabakh conflict.
A group of ethnic Armenian employees of the International Airport of Sochi issued a statement this week, claiming that the airport authorities in this southern Russian city have shown a discriminative approach to them recently by seeking to force them out of jobs on ethnic grounds.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) is opening up new opportunities for its member states, including Armenia, as he attended a summit of the Russian-led trade bloc in Kazakhstan’s capital Nur-Sultan on Wednesday.
The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan will meet again soon for further talks on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the Armenian Foreign Ministry said on Monday.
Islamist militants operating in Syria and Iraq could flock to Azerbaijan in case of a major escalation of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian claimed on Friday.
Armenia and Azerbaijan are committed to peacefully resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Friday in a statement on the 25th anniversary of a Russian-brokered ceasefire agreement that stopped the Armenian-Azerbaijani war.
A Russian lawyer apparently representing Mihran Poghosian, a former senior Armenian official facing corruption charges in Armenia, on Thursday did not deny reports that he has applied for political asylum in Russia.
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