Russia’s Karabakh Mediation Efforts Show Early Hints of Promise (Gulshan Pashayeva, The Jamestown Foundation)

Russia is working hard to resolve the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Karabakh, Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova told reporters in Yerevan, on July 4 (Trend, July 4). Her statement alluded to that day’s meeting held between Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, on the sidelines of the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). Specifically, Lavrov and Nalbandian had discussed the steps being undertaken to implement the agreements on resolving the Karabakh conflict, which were reached earlier this year in Vienna and St. Petersburg (Mfa.am, July 4).

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