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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken praised Armenia and Azerbaijan for taking “courageous steps” towards peace at the two countries’ assembly of foreign ministers in Washington.
Blinken met with Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan and Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Ceyhun Bayramov on Nov. 7 at Blair House, a space for state guests across the street from the White House.
“What we are seeing now are genuine steps and courageous steps through any of the countries to overcome them and paths to lasting peace,” Blinken said in public remarks at the opening of the meeting.
The talks come just weeks after the worst clashes between the two countries since the 2020 war over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Blinken said the talks would build on previous discussions at the U. N. General Assembly in New York and talks between officials from Armenia, Azerbaijan and the United States.
“The United States, as a friend of Armenia and Azerbaijan, is committed to doing everything in its power in this effort,” he added.
The rest of the assembly held in chamber.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called on both sides on Nov. 7 to “refrain from moves and measures that could lead to an escalation of tensions. “
Before the talks opened, Armenia and Azerbaijan accused others of violating a truce along their tense border.
Azerbaijani forces opened fire on Armenian positions “in the eastern sector of the Armenia-Azerbaijan border,” Armenia’s Defense Ministry said in a statement.
He said there were “no casualties and that the scenario on the front line was relatively stable” in early Nov. 7.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have clashed for years over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Armenian-backed separatists seized Armenia’s most populous region from Azerbaijan in a war in the early 1990s that killed some 30,000 people.
The two sides fought another war in 2020 that lasted six weeks and killed thousands of people on both sides ahead of a Russian-brokered ceasefire, causing Armenia to lose parts of the region, which is part of Azerbaijan, and seven adjacent districts. .
Since the ceasefire, Moscow has deployed around 2,000 troops to the region to serve as peacekeepers.
Babayan called reports of the army’s transfer to Nagorno-Karabakh of the Lachin corridor, which connects the region with Armenia and is controlled by Russian peacekeepers, “information terrorism. “
He claimed that Azerbaijan may use the reports as a pretext to provoke ethnic Armenians in the region to “undermine the agreement” related to the Lachin corridor.
“Naturally, no army aircraft are transported because there are cameras. Everything is under surveillance,” Babayan said.
The Russian peacekeeping project in Nagorno-Karabakh said on Telegram on November 5 that 12 tons of humanitarian shipment had been delivered to Nagorno-Karabakh. The Russian side said peacekeepers have already delivered essential items and food parcels to 324 families in the Martuni region. of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Suspicions about the shipments arose through a video posted on the Internet the same day purporting to show several trucks marked as Russian Army leaving a shipping plane at an airport in Yerevan and then heading to Nagorno-Karabakh.
Telegram channels in Azerbaijan also alleged that the Baku government had banned a Russian air force plane from flying into Armenian Azerbaijani airspace and that the plane, which allegedly carried weapons, had to be diverted to succeed in Armenian Iran.
There is no comment on this from officials in Baku, Moscow or Yerevan.
By RFE/RL
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