Armenian Foreign Minister Ara Ayvazian stepped down on May 27 after only six months in office amid growing border tensions with neighboring Azerbaijan.
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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif reaffirmed Iran’s strong support for Armenia’s territorial integrity on Wednesday during a visit to Yerevan dominated by continuing tensions along the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.
Zarif arrived in the Armenian capital from Baku where he discussed the border dispute with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Tuesday.
“We are concerned about the escalations of the last two weeks,” he told Armenian Foreign Minister Ara Ayvazian during their talks. “We have repeatedly warned that there needs to be restraint and respect for the sovereignty of [regional] countries.”
Zarif said the purpose of his regional trip is to help Armenia and Azerbaijan resolve the dispute peacefully.
Deal On Karabakh’s Status Not Urgent For Russia
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The status of Nagorno-Karabakh remains unresolved and it must be a subject of future Armenian-Azerbaijani negotiations, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday.
In the meantime, he stressed, the disputed territory will be protected by Russian peacekeeping forces deployed there after a Moscow-brokered agreement that stopped the Armenian-Azerbaijani war on November 10.
“Precisely because the problem of the status is so thorny it was decided by the three leaders [of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia] to circumvent and leave it to the future,” Lavrov told a news conference in Moscow. “The [Russian, U.S. and French] co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group must deal with this as well. They have resumed their contacts with the parties and are going to visit the region again.”
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President Vladimir Putin on Friday discussed with Russia’s top government and security officials the latest talks between the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan which he hosted earlier this week.
The Kremlin said Putin briefed members of his Security Council on the results of the January 11 talks held two months after he brokered a ceasefire agreement that stopped the war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
“Pressing issues of the Russian state’s internal and foreign policies were also discussed,” it added in a short statement.
The statement gave no other details of Putin’s video conference with Russia’s Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, defense, foreign and interior ministers, other top security officials and the speakers of both houses of the Russian parliament.