ArmInfo. A meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Zohrab Mnatsakanyan and Elmar Mammadyarov will be held in Washington on June 20 under the auspices of the OSCE Minsk Group.As the press service of the Foreign Ministry reports, after the ministerial meetings in January in Paris and in April in Moscow, there were discussions on organizing the next meeting in the capital of the third mediator country - the United States.
"As before, this time, between the participants of the meeting, an agreement was reached on a one-time distribution of the statement of the meeting. Armenia remains committed to this agreement," the Armenian Foreign Ministry stressed, at the same time, noting that constant and deplorable violations and provocations from Azerbaijan, which in recent days have caused irreversible human losses, led to a serious escalation of the situation on the line of contact of troops and created an unfavorable atmosphere in reddewry meeting."The actions of Azerbaijan, which are characterized as the use of force and the threat of use of force, impede the establishment of a favorable atmosphere for negotiations and torpedo progress in the negotiation process. The current situation determines the clear priorities of the agenda of the Washington meeting," the Armenian Foreign Ministry stressed.