ArmInfo. Our meeting is taking place at a time when the South Caucasus region is once again extremely tense.

ArmInfo. India is a supporter of a peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict by diplomatic means, within the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group -  and this is our clear position. Minister of External Affairs of India  Subrahmanyam Jaishankar stated referring to the security environment  in the South Caucasus on October 13 in Yerevan at a joint press  conference with Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan.

ArmInfo.Armenia sees the settlement of the Nagorno- Karabakh conflict exclusively in the format of the OSCE Minsk Group (MG), under the auspices of the co-  chairs and through peace negotiations. Armenian Foreign Minister  Ararat Mirzoyan said this on October 13 in Yerevan at a joint press  conference with Minister of External Affairs of India Subrahmanyam  Jaishankar when asked by ArmInfo correspondent about the prospects of  a meeting with mediators and under their auspices with a counterpart  from Azerbaijan.

ArmInfo. Political interests prevent the parties to the Nagorno- Karabakh conflict from agreeing, while representatives of confessions have advantages in the  negotiation process based on faith in God, common moral values and  trust in each other, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill said  at a meeting on resolving the conflict in Nagorno Karabakh with  Chairman of the Caucasus Muslims' Board (CMB) Sheikh-ul-Islam  Allahshukur Pashazadeh , which takes place on Tuesday in Moscow.

ArmInfo.The idea of concessions on Karabakh arose in the Armenian political discourse from the moment of the definition of political identity, the construction of a state  in Armenia by this very Karabakh. Sergey Markedonov, the leading  researcher at the Euro-Atlantic Security Center of the MGIMO  Institute for International Studies, expressed this opinion at the  international "Caucasus in the 21st Century" conference organized by  the Caucasus Institute in Yerevan.  "In my opinion, the concessions  on Karabakh are far from the result of the events of 2020, it all  started much earlier.

ArmInfo.The problems of Armenia and Azerbaijan are by no means limited to Karabakh. Sergey Markedonov is the leading researcher at the Euro-Atlantic Security Center of the MGIMO Institute for International Studies, expressed this opinion at  the international "Caucasus in the 21st Century" conference organized  by the Caucasus Institute in Yerevan.

ArmInfo.Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian is ready to visit the capitals of Azerbaijan and Armenia as a gesture of good neighborliness. He stated  this in an interview with the Russia-24 TV channel.

ArmInfo.Official Vilnius hopes that it will be possible to return to a political settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict under the auspices of the OSCE Minsk Group  co-chairs. This was stated by the Prime Minister of the Republic of  Lithuania Ingrida Simonyte on September 4 during a joint briefing  with the Prime Minister of Armenia.

ArmInfo.Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan has arrived in the Republic of Lithuania on an official visit. In the sidelines of the visit, the Prime Minister  met with representatives of the local Armenian community, who  represent the sectors of healthcare, culture and business.

ArmInfo.Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan received the delegation led by Foreign Minister of the Czech Republic Jakub Kulhanek, who are in Armenia on a working visit.  

ArmInfo. Clashes in the zone of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict were on the agenda of the talks between the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and the Czech Republic.  As  Czech Foreign Minister Jakub Kulhanek said at a briefing following  the meeting with his Armenian counterpart Ararat Mirzoyan, during the  meeting they touched upon the processes in the region.

ArmInfo. Within the framework of his visit to Paris to participate in the event dedicated  to the 100th anniversary of the celebrated French- Armenian filmmaker  Henri Verneuil, RA Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports  Vahram Dumanyan met with UNESCO Director General Audrey Azoulay .   According to the press service of the department, a number of issues  of mutual interest were discussed during the meeting.

ArmInfo.On September 30, the RA NA Deputy Speaker Hakob Arshakyan received Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation (RF) to  the Republic of Armenia Sergei Kopyrkin.

ArmInfo.The reality of the current geopolitical situation in the South Caucasus reflects a new balance formed as a result of the 44-day war. The latter does not  leave any of the external players an opportunity to force one or  another side of the Karabakh conflict to make serious concessions.  Gela Vasadze, senior analyst at the Georgian Center for Strategic  Analysis, expressed this opinion to ArmInfo.

ArmInfo.Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev once again ruled out the possibility of  granting any autonomy to the Armenians of Artsakh.

ArmInfo.. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov voiced the main result of ending the war in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone.

ArmInfo.. Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of European and Eurasian Affairs Dereck Hogan and National Security Council Senior Director for Europe Amanda Sloat,  met on September 27 with OSCE Minsk Group Co- Chairs Stephane  Visconti of France, Andrew Schofer of the United States, and Igor  Khovaev of the Russian Federation, as well as Personal Representative  of the OSCE Chairperson in Office Andrzej Kasprzyk. 

ArmInfo.The Azerbaijani authorities not only continue their hostile policy towards the people of Artsakh, but also rename Armenian settlements in the territories  fallen under their control, destroy and desecrate religious  sanctuaries and cultural heritage. This is stated in the statement of  the RA MFA on the occasion of the anniversary of Azerbaijan's  aggression against Artsakh.

ArmInfo.Within the framework of the 76th session of the UN General Assembly, RA Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan met with   EU High Representative for  Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice President of the  European Commission Josep Borrell.

ArmInfo. At the general debate of the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan touched upon the situation in the South Caucasus region, present Armenia's views and proposals for resolving  existing problems.