ArmInfo.Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan held a number of bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the OSCE ministerial meeting in the city of Lozd.
According to the Press Service of the Armenian Foreign Ministry, Mirzoyan met with Foreign Ministers of Estonia Urmas Reinsalu, Greece Nikos Dendias, Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis and State Secretary of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland Livia Leu. At the meetings, the sides stressed the importance of developing bilateral relations based on mutual trust and common democratic values. The parties also discussed the development of relations between the EU and Armenia. Issues of the regional agenda were also touched upon.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia at the meetings presented to his counterparts the position of the Armenian side regarding the establishment of a stable and lasting peace in the South Caucasus. The Armenian side also stressed the importance of the activities of the EU monitoring mission in Armenia, which contributes to the stabilization of the situation in the region. At a meeting with his Greek counterpart, Ararat Mirzoyan stressed that the belligerent rhetoric of the Azerbaijani side and the recent ongoing border provocations contain a great danger of new aggressions from the Azerbaijani armed forces. During the meeting with Dendias, the process of normalization of relations between Armenia and Turkey was also discussed.