Leaders of Armenia and Russia Discuss Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict

03.08.2022

Leaders of Armenia and Russia Discuss Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Russian President Vladimir Putin have discussed the
settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the press service of the Kremlin reported on 2 August.


Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Russian President Vladimir Putin have discussed the
settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the press service of the Kremlin reported on 2 August.
According to the source, the leaders of the two states discussed the practical implementation of the
trilateral agreements between the leaders of Armenia, Russia and Azerbaijan on Artsakh dated
November 2020, January and November 2021.

A telephone conversation was held also between the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Russia. Ararat
Mirzoyan and Sergey Lavrov discussed “the current security situation in the region", as reported.
Besides, on August 1 a phone conversation was held between the Armenian Foreign Minister and US
Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Karen Donfried. The interlocutors touched
upon matters of regional security, the normalization of Armenian-Azerbaijani relations and the conflict
in Artsakh.

All those conversations were held against the background of announcement by the Artsakh Defense
Ministry on Azerbaijani Armed Forces’ attempts to break through the Armenian defense lines located in
the Russian peacekeeping force’s zone of responsibility.