Russia has announced that its border guard service has set up five new posts along Armenia’s borders with Azerbaijan and Iran due to the war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has called criticism in Armenia of Russia’s stance on Nagorno-Karabakh “unfair.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan discussed the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh in a telephone call that took place on November 7, the Kremlin and the Turkish leader’s administration said.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has called on Russia to maintain neutrality in the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh given its status as an international mediator.
Ethnic Armenian forces in Nagorno-Karabakh have captured a Syrian mercenary who they claim fought on Azerbaijan’s side, Armenia’s Defense Ministry said on Friday.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has spoken in favor of the deployment of Russian peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh as fighting between Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces continued unabated in the region on October 30.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused Azerbaijan on Friday of repeatedly using widely banned cluster munitions in the shelling of civilian areas in Nagorno-Karabakh.
The United Nations Security Council again discussed the continuing war over Nagorno-Karabakh late on Monday at a meeting initiated by France, Russia and the United States and, the three world powers trying to end the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict.
The European Union on Sunday deplored continuing hostilities in and around Nagorno-Karabakh and urged the conflicting parties to respect a fresh ceasefire agreement without any preconditions.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian criticized Turkey’s role in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict on Thursday, saying that Ankara is not trying to stop the ongoing fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces.
The head of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) expressed concern on Thursday about the alleged participation of Syrian mercenaries in hostilities around Nagorno-Karabakh, saying that it poses a “challenge” to the Russian-led military alliance.
Russia on Monday continued to press for an immediate end to large-scale hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh and pledged to seek a peaceful solution to the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict “in every possible way.”
The government of the Czech Republic on Tuesday claimed to have not authorized the newly disclosed delivery to Azerbaijan of Czech-made heavy artillery systems.
Vahan Hovannisian, a leader of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) and one of the country’s most prominent post-Soviet politicians, died at the age of 58 early on Sunday.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has condemned large-scale Armenian military exercises that were held in and around Nagorno-Karabakh last month, saying they dealt a blow to international efforts to resolve the Karabakh conflict
Armenia has to specify the implications of its upcoming accession to a Russian-led alliance of ex-Soviet states before it can negotiate new major agreements with the European Union, a senior official in Brussels said on Wednesday.
Armenia hopes to complete its accession to the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan by next May, according to high-ranking Armenian diplomats.
Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said on Monday that he will again meet with his Armenian counterpart Edward Nalbandian this month to discuss preparations for an Armenian-Azerbaijani summit which international mediators hope will revive the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process.
Armenia and Azerbaijan traded accusations on Monday over what a senior Azerbaijani official described as a failure of fresh talks on Nagorno-Karabakh held by their foreign ministers in Paris last week.
President Serzh Sarkisian will reportedly fly to Tehran this weekend to attend a five-day summit of the Nonaligned Movement, a loose grouping of 120 nations in which Armenia has an observer status.
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