The foreign ministers of Armenia and Russia discussed prospects of settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict at a meeting in Yerevan, Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said during a press conference in the Armenian capital.
SCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger expressed readiness to assist the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs who conduct mediation mission in the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.
The Artsakh Republic delegation led by President Bako Sahakyan arrived in France on a working visit, press service of the Artsakh Presidential Office reported.
The increase of allocations to the defense field in the 2018 state budget is aimed at ensuring people’s security and increase of investments, Gagik Minasyan, chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on financial-credit and budgetary affairs, told reporters.
Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov sees possibility of progress in the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement, RIA Novosti reports.
Cooperation between Russia and the US on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement was not damaged by the current state of relations between the two countries, Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said at the Azerbaijani Diplomatic Academy on November 18, TASS reports.
The position of the European Union on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement has always been the same in support of the efforts and approaches of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair countries, Armenian foreign minister Edward Nalbandian said at a press conference commenting on the provision of the Declaration of the upcoming Eastern Partnership summit relating to conflicts.
President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan on November 17 signed a decree on appointing Sergey Minasyan Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Armenia to Romania (residence in Bucharest),
Coming up with an invention in the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement process is quite difficult. If Azerbaijan gets a bit watchful to those calls which the Co-Chairing countries present as settlement of the conflict, then greater opportunities will be opened for advancing this process and having results, Armenia’s FM Edward Nalbandian told a press conference.
The meeting of the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan will be held in Vienna in December, Armenian foreign minister Edward Nalbandian said at a press conference, adding that the exact date and hour of the meeting is not clarified yet.