Blinken and Cavusoglu
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Wednesday in Riga, Latvia on the margins of the NATO Foreign Ministerial.
"Secretary Blinken and Foreign Minister Cavusoglu discussed the crisis in Ethiopia and joint efforts aimed at maintaining stability in the Black Sea region. They also discussed Russia's aggression against Ukraine and the situation in Armenia and Azerbaijan as well as Afghanistan," the State Department said in a readout of the meeting.
"The discussion built on President Biden and President Erdogan's conversation in Rome last month regarding bilateral cooperation and other priorities, including democracy and human rights." Department's Spokesperson Ned Price said.
Wednesday marked the conclusion of NATO's two-day ministerial as the U.S. and NATO warn that Russia may be planning to invade Ukraine, just like it did before annexing the Crimean Peninsula in 2014.
Secretary Blinken will meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba today at the OSCE Ministerial to discuss the issue.
"We don't know whether President [Vladimir] Putin has made the decision to invade," Blinken said on Wednesday. "We do know that he is putting in place the capacity to do so in short order should he so decide."
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg also warned that "there will be a high price to pay" if Moscow uses force against Ukraine.
Alex Raufoglu
Washington D.C.
Politics
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By 10:00 a.m., voter turnout in the snap parliamentary elections was 9.92%, the Central Election Commission of Azerbaijan reported.
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Voting in the early elections to the Milli Majlis of Azerbaijan began at 8:00. Voting is taking place at 6,478 polling stations throughout Azerbaijan, including the lands liberated from occupation. 990 candidates are competing for 125 seats in the unicameral parliament.
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Armenia is not against the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group, but does not consider it appropriate to discuss this issue now. "In the context of peace, we consider it possible to make a decision on the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group. When peace is an established fact, the existence of such a format may raise questions," Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at a press conference today. "The whole question is about the timing, we need to understand how effectively and correctly to turn such topics into a subject of discussion right now," the Armenian Prime Minister added.
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He expressed his willingness to meet with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at the border between the two countries. "A meeting with Ilham Aliyev could take place at the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. I am open to such a format," Pashinyan said at a press conference today. According to Pashinyan, Armenia recently presented another proposal for a peace treaty to Azerbaijan.
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