ArmInfo.The visit of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to the region is official and will be dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Yerevan and Moscow. On November 17, Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian stated this at a joint news conference with Brazilian Foreign Minister Aloisio Nunes Ferreira.
"Lavrov will be in Yerevan on November 20-21, and we will open a fairly important exhibition" Russia and Armenia: Friendship, Hardened for Ages, "and a number of other events are planned." Of course, Lavrov will hold a meeting with Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, negotiations will be held at the Foreign Ministry, after which our It is natural that at these meetings (the Karabakh issue - editor's notes) will be discussed, after all, Russia is one of the three co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group and has an important role in the efforts to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict as a co-chair and partner country for Armenia and Azerbaijan, and Armenia, as you know, has allied relations with Russia, "Nalbandian said.
At that, he stressed that this visit is a good opportunity to continue discussing the issues of the Armenian- Russian bilateral agenda, the implementation of the agreements reached at the level of the heads of state. "We have a wide range of issues on the agenda of the discussions, and we already have a lot of things to say, that is, multi-layered, many meaningful and deep relations, and we spare no effort to maximally deepen and develop these relations," Nalbandian said.
Answering a question about whether it is possible that Lavrov is bringing new proposals on the Nagorno- Karabakh settlement, the Armenian minister called on not to "reinvent the wheel". "Over the years, we have discussed many working documents, but in reality, the basis in the settlement process is unchanged, and we talked about this more than once, and if Azerbaijan showed a little more vigilance to the approaches that the mediating countries offer as a solution to the conflict, then more opportunities will be opened to advance this process and obtain results, "Nalbandian concluded. -