The Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a phone conversation with the Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian called for a ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Zarif stressed the need for a peaceful settlement of the conflict, to restore calm in the region. He also said that Iran is ready to play a role in resolving the crisis, if the sides agree, according to ISNA.
Zarif spoke on the same topic with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov, who arrived in Iran for a trilateral ministerial meeting of Azerbaijan, Iran and Turkey. -0-
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BP-Azerbaijan has suspended operations at its offshore Alpha platform at the Shah Deniz gas condensate field due to a technical fault in a subsea gas pipeline used to transport gas condensate, company spokesperson Tamam Bayatly said on Friday.
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The European Union's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy has proposed extending the EU’s civilian monitoring mission in Armenia for another two years. This was confirmed in a response from the EU press service to a query from the Armenian service of Radio Free Europe.
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On January 10, the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, accepted the credentials of the newly appointed Ambassador of Lithuania to Azerbaijan, Kestutis Vaškevičius.
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