Armenia, Azerbaijan to abandon extreme views?![]() January 23, 2012 - 16:13 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - During a trilateral meeting in Sochi, Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan stressed the need to continue efforts on approximating their positions, Russian Foreign Minister said. “The sides stressed the need to abandon extreme views to achieve further progress,” RIA Novosti quoted Sergei Lavrov as saying. “The presidents voiced readiness to speed up development of common principles to further shift to working out of law-binding peace agreement,” Russian FM said, adding that “Russia will further efforts on approximating positions of the conflicting parties in the capacity of OSCE Minsk Group mediator.” ![]() ![]() The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Ararat Mirzoyan and Jeyhun Bayramov, have arrived in Washington. The CSTO budget for the current year requires adjustments due to the refusal of Yerevan to pay their share of contributions. Six total incidents have burned 19 old-growth trees. Friday night 8 trees were torched along the beautiful main entrance. The EU does not intend to conduct military exercises with Armenia, Lead Spokesperson for EU Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Peter Stano says. ![]() ![]() Partner news | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |