Heghine Buniatyan has been a senior editor with RFE/RL’s Armenian Service since June 2016. She has previously served as the editor-in-chief of the Yerevan bureau, a broadcaster, and as the director of the Maxliberty Youth Program.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday rebuked Armenia for letting the European Union send a new monitoring team to its border with Azerbaijan and refusing a similar mission offered by the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).
The European Union will likely send next month a new and larger monitoring team to Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan in an effort to ease lingering tensions there, sources told RFE/RL’s Armenian Service on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian complained about the continuing Azerbaijani blockade of the sole road connecting Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia when he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Saint-Petersburg on Tuesday.
Armenia and Azerbaijan may hold fresh negotiations on a bilateral peace treaty before the end of this month, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov said after meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow on Monday.
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday accused Western powers of obstructing Russian efforts to end the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan and trying to hijack Armenian-Azerbaijani agreements brokered by Moscow.
Russia believes that Armenia and Azerbaijan should not try to agree on Nagorno-Karabakh’s status in the foreseeable future, a senior Russian diplomat confirmed on Tuesday.
Russia has accused the West of pressuring Armenia to cut its traditionally close ties with Moscow in an effort to end Russian presence in the South Caucasus.
Turkey has again demanded that Armenia agree to open an extraterritorial land corridor connecting Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave.
French President Emmanuel Macron has accused Russia of inciting Azerbaijan to attack Armenia in a bid to destabilize the South Caucasus.
The Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) also stands ready to deploy monitors to Armenia’s volatile border with Azerbaijan, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told his Armenian counterpart Ararat Mirzoyan on Wednesday.
European Union countries approved on Tuesday the dispatch of a monitoring team to Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan which will try to ease lingering tensions there.
The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan appear to have failed to bridge their differences on restoring transport links between their countries during marathon negotiations concluded early on Friday.
The European Union’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, has accused Azerbaijan of occupying Armenian territory but made clear that the EU is not considering imposing sanctions on Baku.
Armenia accused Azerbaijan of planning another, more large-scale attack on its territory on Thursday during an emergency session of the UN Security Council which discussed this week’s fighting on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.
By escalating the situation in and around Nagorno-Karabakh Azerbaijan pursues three goals that it wants to achieve either by force or the threat of force, which it hopes will pressure Armenia to capitulate in negotiations, an international think tank says in its latest report on the region.
Washington is closely following the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh and urges immediate steps to reduce tensions and avoid further escalation, the United States mission to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said on Tuesday.
The U.S. ambassador to Armenia, Lynne Tracy, on Tuesday reaffirmed Washington’s stated readiness for renewed cooperation with Russia on facilitating a settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
The United States is willing to continue to cooperate with Russia in facilitating a settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Karen Donfried insisted over the weekend.
The European Union has replaced Russia as the lead player in international efforts to broker peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan, an EU official claimed on Friday.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke with his Armenian and Azerbaijani counterparts by phone on Monday one day after the leaders of the two South Caucasus states met again in Brussels.
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