The meeting of foreign minister of Armenia Zohrab Mnatsakanyan and foreign minister of Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov was held in Bratislava on December 4 on the sidelines of the 26th OSCE ministerial conference. The meeting was held under the mediation and with the participation of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs Igor Popov of the Russian Federation, Stéphane Visconti of France, and Andrew Schofer of the United States of America, as well as Andrzej Kasprzyk, the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office.
On December 4, in accordance with the arrangement reached with the authorities of the Republic of Artsakh, the OSCE Mission conducted a planned monitoring of the ceasefire regime on the border of Artsakh and Azerbaijan, in the north-east of the Hadrut region.
Russia and Azerbaijan believe that an opportunity for finding compromise exists in the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement issue, Russian FM Sergey Lavrov said on December 3 in Baku during a joint press conference with his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mammadyarov, according to TASS.
On December 4, in accordance with the arrangement reached with the authorities of the Republic of Artsakh, the OSCE Mission will conduct a planned monitoring of the ceasefire regime on the border of Artsakh and Azerbaijan, in the north-east of the Hadrut region.
The Armenian side is going to work over its priorities at the upcoming meeting of foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan Zohrab Mnatsakanyan and Elmar Mammadyarov in Bratislava, FM Mnatsakanyan told reporters today in Yerevan, asked what issues are going to the discussed at the expected meeting.
One soldier has died and another one was wounded after sustaining gunshot wounds in “circumstances that are still unknown”, the Defense Ministry of Artsakh said in a news release.
The Azerbaijani troops violated the ceasefire regime nearly 220 times on Artsakh-Azerbaijan contact line in the period of November 24-30, during which over 3500 bullets were fired in the direction of Armenian border guards from different caliber weapons.
Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan participated in the session of the CSTO Collective Security Council in Bishkek on November 28. The session was attended by the leaders of the CSTO member states – Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. The narrow format session of the leaders was followed by an extended format session with the participation of the delegations.
Artsakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan visited today several military units of the Defense Army located in the central and eastern parts of the republic, got acquainted with the course of the service and the current situation.
