Moscow-Sana
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov discussed during two separate meetings in Moscow with his Armenian counterparts Zagrab Manatsakyanian and Azerbaijani Jihon Piramov the situation in the disputed Karabakh region and an agreement on a ceasefire there.
"Russia Today" website quoted the Russian Foreign Ministry as saying in a statement today that the negotiations that Lavrov held with Manatsakyanian and Bayramov addressed "urgent issues related to the normalization of the agreements previously reached regarding the ceasefire in the Karabakh conflict area and creating the appropriate conditions for a sustainable settlement." .
Armenia and Azerbaijan had agreed during consultations hosted by Moscow earlier this month to declare a humanitarian truce in Karabakh, but the two parties to the conflict exchanged accusations of violating the ceasefire regime.
To that, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stressed that the main task at the present time is to stop hostilities in Nagorny Karabakh.
"Iran, as one of the most important countries in the region, has the capacity and can play its role, and I think at this stage that efforts should focus on ending the hostilities, and we will welcome any constructive Iranian step aimed at bringing peace and stability to the region," Pashinyan said in an interview with the Iranian news agency IRNA.
"It has been confirmed at the international level that Turkey has sent terrorist fighters from Syria to the region," the Armenian prime minister added, adding that "this is a serious threat to the Caucasus region."
And Pashinyan had warned yesterday, through a post on his Facebook page, that the Turkish regime aims to fuel the war in the Nagorno Karabakh region to control the gas supply lines to Europe and not to liberate the lands of Azerbaijan, as its officials claim.