Russia said on Tuesday that it keeps trying to ease tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan as troops from the two South Caucasus countries remained locked in a border standoff threatening to reignite the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov discussed with his Armenian and Azerbaijani counterparts the implementation of Russian-brokered agreements to stop the war in Nagorno-Karabakh during separate talks held in Moscow late on Thursday.
In separate phone calls, Russian President Vladimir Putin has again discussed with the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan the implementation of a Russian-brokered agreement that stopped last year’s war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian effectively retracted on Monday his claim that the Armenian army’s most advanced Russian-made missiles seriously malfunctioned during the recent war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Russian pro-government lawmakers and pundits strongly condemned Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Wednesday for implying that Armenia's most advanced Russian-made missiles proved useless during the recent war with Azerbaijan.
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.
The parties to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict must respect the Russian-brokered agreement to stop the Armenian-Azerbaijani war and not try to change the status quo, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.
Russia is satisfied with Armenia’s and Azerbaijan’s compliance with a Moscow-brokered ceasefire agreement that stopped the war in Nagorno-Karabakh on November 10, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday praised Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian for agreeing to the “painful” ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh and said Russia and its ex-Soviet allies should help him implement the Armenian-Azerbaijani agreement brokered by Moscow.
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.
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