“We are ready to help sign a peace agreement…”,
said the head of Russian diplomacy, Sergei Lavrov, the other Thursday.
A peace agreement?
Sure, but which one was he talking about?
Of the one that concerns Armenia and Azerbaijan, not Ukraine!
And he makes this point in Yerevan, in the Caucasus, between the Black Sea and the Caspian: we are far from Odessa...
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However, there too, the state of war which has been raging for twenty, even thirty years (since the dissolution of the USSR) has never ended.
Two years ago, the two countries even engaged in more than six weeks of hard fighting which left 6,500 dead - before Russia managed to impose a ceasefire.
And it sent a contingent of 2,000 men to try to maintain a provisional peace in Nagorno-Karabakh, pending an agreement between the two belligerents.
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