Armenian, Azeri Foreign Ministers to meet “in the near future”June 23, 2018 - 12:04 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian and Azeri Foreign Ministers Zohrab Mnatsakanyan and Elmar Mammadyarov have agreed to hold a meeting in the near future with the mediation of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs, official representative of Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry Hikmet Hajiyev said Friday, June 22, according to RIA Novosti. “The parties have reached an agreement that a meeting of Armenian and Azerbaijani Foreign Ministers will be held through the OSCE Minsk Group in the near future to reach a settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict,” Hajiyev said. Hajiyev said earlier that the date and venue of the next meeting will be announced later. Mnatsakanyan participated in the informal ministerial meeting of Eastern Partnership countries in Minsk on Friday. In a photo published by Foreign Ministry spokesman Tigran Balayan on Twitter, Mnatsakanyan was seen standing in the company of Mammadyarov. Obviously, the foreign ministers of the two countries unofficially communicated. There are no official statements about the content of the conversation so far though. Top stories 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. Hikmet Hajiyev has said that there is no place for USAID operation in Azerbaijan any longer. A telephone conversation between Putin and Pashinyan before the CSTO summit is not planned, Peskov says. Partner news | Czech-Armenian military cooperation discussed in Yerevan A delegation led by the Director General for the Industrial Cooperation Division of the Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic visited Armenia. Ex-Karabakh leader moved to solitary confinement cell in Baku, his son says David Vardanyan is the son of former Karabakh leader Ruben Vardanyan who who is currently imprisoned in Azerbaijan. Freedom House concerned by mounting reports of police violence in Armenia Freedom House urged Armenian authorities to investigate this pattern of excessive force and inhumane treatment. CSTO recognizes Armenia’s sovereign right to withdraw Tasmagambetov has said that if Armenia decides to leave the organization, “it will be the sovereign right of Armenia.” |