At a gathering along with his Armenian counterpart in Moscow, Lavrov mentioned the Kremlin was prepared to help within the normalisation of Armenia-Azerbaijan relations.
Russian International Minister Sergey Lavrov on Tuesday welcomed his Armenian counterpart Ararat Mirzoyan for bilateral talks that coated the newest developments in Armenia-Azerbaijan tensions.
On the assembly in Moscow, Lavrov mentioned the Kremlin was prepared to help within the normalisation of Armenia-Azerbaijan relations, whereas Armenia’s overseas minister mentioned he hoped that Russia would keep in mind all features of latest occasions, “avoiding one-sided interpretations, which we have now sadly seen not too long ago.”.
“I hope that our assembly at this time promotes mutual understanding,” Mirzoyan added.
The assembly comes amid decades-long fraught relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan, and after Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s repeated announcement of his intention to go away the Collective Safety Treaty Group (CSTO), an intergovernmental navy alliance led by Russia, much like NATO.
Pashinaian has additionally mentioned he wished to shift to creating nearer ties with the US and the European Union after accusing Moscow of taking sides with Azerbaijan in Yerevan’s battle with Baku.
“We’re prepared to offer the required help to the normalisation of relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan on all tracks within the improvement of the trilateral agreements reached by the leaders of the three international locations in 2020 and 2022,” Lavrov mentioned on the media briefing.
“We consider that these agreements are nonetheless related, particularly in mild of the present scenario within the area. So we have now a really busy agenda.” he added.
Armenia-Azerbaijan relations have been tense for greater than 30 years since conflict broke out over Nagorno-Karabakh within the late Eighties and early Nineties. The battle is the longest between two post-Soviet nations.
In 2020, after three a long time of failed diplomatic efforts, Azerbaijan launched a navy operation it described as “anti-terror”, which claimed some components of the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave.
The six-week conflict, often known as the Second Karabakh Warfare ended with a Moscow-brokered ceasefire with Russian troops deployed to ensure the settlement.
Nevertheless, three years later, Baku gained full management of Nagorno-Karabakh when greater than 100,000 Armenians fled as Baku forces superior.
Armenian authorities accuse Moscow’s peacekeepers, who had been deployed to Nagorno-Karabakh after the 2020 conflict, of failing to cease the Azerbaijani onslaught, an accusation that the Kremlin has denied.
Russia as a substitute accused the Armenian authorities of being pro-Western. The accusations over the Second Karabakh Warfare have strained relations between Armenia and Russia, who’ve been long-time allies.
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