YEREVAN (Azatutyun.am)—Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov cancelled at the last minute a fresh meeting with his Armenian counterpart Ararat Mirzoyan which was due to be held late last week.
\The two men had planned to meet in Stockholm on the sidelines of an annual meeting of foreign ministers of OSCE member states.
An Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said Baku called off the meeting in response to an Armenian parliamentary delegation’s “illegal visit” to Nagorno-Karabakh. She denounced the trip as a “provocation.”
The Armenian Foreign Ministry reported earlier on Saturday that Mirzoyan’s planned talks with Bayramov did not take place. But it gave no reasons for the cancellation.
The U.S., Russian and French mediators co-heading the OSCE Minsk Group regretted the ministers’ failure to meet for the fourth time in less than three months. In a joint statement issued over the weekend, they expressed readiness to host such a meeting “as soon as circumstances allow.”
An Armenian political analyst, Beniamin Poghosyan, linked the meeting’s cancellation to Baku’s and Yerevan’s failure to put the finishing touches on an agreement to establish cross-border transport connections during the latest round of Russian-mediated negotiations.
The leaders of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan reported further progress towards opening the Armenian-Azerbaijani border to passenger and cargo traffic after holding talks in another Russian city, Sochi, on November 26. Russian President Vladimir Putin said a trilateral working group will announce in the coming days “decisions which we agreed today.” The group made no such announcements after meeting in Moscow last Wednesday.
In a separate development, Azerbaijan freed and repatriated on Saturday ten Armenian prisoners of war in return for receiving more information from Armenia about minefields around Nagorno-Karabakh.
The soldiers were captured during the November 16 fighting on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border which left at least 13 troops from the two sides dead.
Both Armenian politicians Alen Simonian and Ararat Mirzoyan gave their messages to Tsar Putin that the Artsakh problem is not over yet, leave Armenia alone, and get out of South Caucasus with your fake peace-keeping forces.
If Russia leaves, who is going to defend Armenia? Biden? Macron? who?
Do we really still think Russia is the defender of Armenia after witnessing them doing absolutely nothing during the 2020 war to defend their Armenian ally and instead armed our enemy over the years and turned a blind eye on the military presence and direct participation in the war by NATO member terrorist Turkey on our enemy’s side? I don’t think so. We are fooling ourselves. Our leaders are partly to blame for this too because they are not conducting the right foreign policy with Russia. More important than that, we should stop putting all our proverbial eggs in one basket and completely and not rely on unreliable Russia alone. We need other allies we can count on. We need to conduct a multi-faceted foreign policy. When you have a single “ally” that does not treat you as an equal and his help is subject to his interpretation of the situation and collaborates with our enemies it is insanity to rely on such an “ally” and nothing good can come out of this. I say keep Russia but look elsewhere too and make new alliances.
Azeri FM doesn’t look Azeri … he looks much Armenian …
He should do his DNA … to know who is he…
My second hobby is studying faces…
and I always have correct judgment…
Dr. Sylva
@DR SILVA!!!!
IF TURKS AND AZERI PEEOPLE DO DNA TEST, THEIR HEADS WILL EXPLODE WHEN THEY FIND THEY ARE ARMEENIAN!!!! LOLOLOL