(Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will go to Baku this week to discuss tensions between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, Russia’s RIA information company mentioned on Wednesday.
The dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous territory inside Azerbaijan managed because the Nineties by ethnic Armenians supported by Yerevan, flared in 2020 right into a six-week struggle wherein Azeri troops regained swathes of territory.
Although Russia brokered a ceasefire and each nations agreed to work on a peace plan, the 2 periodically accuse one another of firing shells throughout the border, RIA famous.
Lavrov will likely be in Baku on Thursday and Friday to meet President Ilham Aliyev and Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov.
“The conferences will likely be devoted, in accordance to the Russian overseas ministry, to the implementation of the 2020 trilateral agreements between Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan on
cessation of hostilities,” RIA mentioned.
Delegations from Armenia and Azerbaijan met on their worldwide border on May 24 in a choreographed step in direction of ending the 30-12 months dispute.
The peace plan has sparked generally violent protests in Armenia fueled by opposition claims that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan was making too many concessions.
(Reporting by David Ljunggren; Editing by Sandra Maler)
