Armenian and Russian foreign ministers meeting in Moscow
07.12.2020,
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Armenian Foreign Minister Ara Ayvazyan, who is on a working visit in Russia, held a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, according to the Facebook page of the Armenian Foreign Ministry's press secretary.
YEREVAN, December 7. /ARKA/. Armenian Foreign Minister Ara Ayvazyan, who is on a working visit in Russia, held a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, according to the Facebook page of the Armenian Foreign Ministry's press secretary.
This is Lavrov's second personal meeting with the new Foreign Minister of Armenia over the past month. The previous talks between the foreign ministers took place on November 21 during the visit of the Russian delegation to Yerevan.
Ayvazyan and Lavrov were expected to discuss international and regional issues, as well as the entire range of bilateral ties. However, the key topic of the talks was the implementation of the statement of the leaders of Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia of November 9 to stop the war in Nagorno-Karabakh, TASS reported.
From September 27 to November 9 2020 Azerbaijani armed forces, backed by Turkey and foreign mercenaries and terrorists, attacked Nagorno-Karabakh along the entire front line, using rocket and artillery weapons, heavy armored vehicles, military aircraft and prohibited types of weapons such as cluster bombs and phosphorus weapons.
On November 9, the leaders of the Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a statement on the cessation of all hostilities in Artsakh. According to the document, the parties stopped at where they were at that time. The town of Shushi, the districts of Aghdam, Kelbajar and Lachin are handed over to Azerbaijan, with the exception of a 5-kilometer corridor connecting Karabakh with Armenia.
A 2000-member Russian peacekeeping contingent has been deployed along the contact line in Karabakh and along the Lachin corridor. Internally displaced persons and refugees are returning to Karabakh and adjacent regions, prisoners of war, hostages and other detained persons and bodies of the dead are being exchanged.--0-
This is Lavrov's second personal meeting with the new Foreign Minister of Armenia over the past month. The previous talks between the foreign ministers took place on November 21 during the visit of the Russian delegation to Yerevan.
Ayvazyan and Lavrov were expected to discuss international and regional issues, as well as the entire range of bilateral ties. However, the key topic of the talks was the implementation of the statement of the leaders of Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia of November 9 to stop the war in Nagorno-Karabakh, TASS reported.
From September 27 to November 9 2020 Azerbaijani armed forces, backed by Turkey and foreign mercenaries and terrorists, attacked Nagorno-Karabakh along the entire front line, using rocket and artillery weapons, heavy armored vehicles, military aircraft and prohibited types of weapons such as cluster bombs and phosphorus weapons.
On November 9, the leaders of the Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a statement on the cessation of all hostilities in Artsakh. According to the document, the parties stopped at where they were at that time. The town of Shushi, the districts of Aghdam, Kelbajar and Lachin are handed over to Azerbaijan, with the exception of a 5-kilometer corridor connecting Karabakh with Armenia.
A 2000-member Russian peacekeeping contingent has been deployed along the contact line in Karabakh and along the Lachin corridor. Internally displaced persons and refugees are returning to Karabakh and adjacent regions, prisoners of war, hostages and other detained persons and bodies of the dead are being exchanged.--0-
