Go to Media Bank US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. File photoWASHINGTON, Sep 15 US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken expects to soon make new contacts with Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders Nikol Pashinyan and Ilham Aliyev on the situation in the region, State Department spokesman Ned Price said. remember, the US Secretary of State recently had conversations with the leaders of the two countries, and we should expect that he will have such an opportunity again soon,» Price said, commenting on US contacts with Pashinyan and Aliyev on the situation in the Caucasus.
Putin will discuss with Aliyev the situation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani borderOn Tuesday night, hostilities broke out on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, the parties accuse each other of starting the aggravation. Yerevan stated that the Azerbaijani military shelled the territory of Armenia using artillery and drones. The areas on the border — Gegharkunik, Vayots Dzor, Syunik regions (connects Armenia with Iran) were shelled. These territories have nothing to do with Karabakh. Baku stated that the Armenian military fired at the positions of the Azerbaijani troops on the border, there was a clash. The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry accused Armenia of intending to disrupt the peace process. Both sides reported losses among their military. By morning, the parties agreed to a ceasefire. As the head of the international committee of the Federation Council, Grigory Karasin, told RIA Novosti, a truce on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan was achieved thanks to the efforts of Russia, including after a conversation between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and the work of the Russian Foreign Ministry. According to the senator, there is a lot of work to be done, since Yerevan applied to the CSTO. As CSTO spokesman Vladimir Zainetdinov said earlier, an emergency meeting of the CSTO Permanent Council was held on September 13, which expressed extreme concern about the situation on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan and considered proposals for using the CSTO mechanisms by settlement. On Tuesday, the CSTO Collective Security Council reached an agreement to send a mission of the organization to Armenia, headed by the organization's Secretary General Stanislav Zas. from Transcaucasia
