Participants in the negotiations on Nagorno-Karabakh in Vienna agreed on a ceasefire in the region in the agreement format of 1994-1995. This was stated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov after the talks of the Presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia with the mediation of the Foreign Ministers of the co-chairing countries of the OSCE Minsk Group (Russia, the USA, France) on Nagorno-Karabakh.
"We agreed, and this will be discussed in a joint statement to enforce a truce, a cease-fire in the form in which the agreement was reached in 1994-1995," he said.
The Armenian and Azerbaijani negotiators are set to search for compromises, Lavrov said.
"We have a reason to believe that the Armenian and Azerbaijani negotiators set out to formulate a compromise. We will contribute to this," he said.
Lavrov said that during the meeting it was agreed that "in June, the Presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia will agree on the time and place of their next meeting, which will continue the work on harmonization of the parameters of a final settlement of the Karabakh problem." -0-
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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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On August 31, Azerbaijan observes a "day of silence" before the Sunday’s early parliamentary elections for the unicameral Milli Majlis. All electoral campaigning is prohibited 24 hours before the voting. The early elections were initiated by the ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party. This decision was motivated by the overlap of the scheduled elections in November with the global UN forum - the COP20 climate conference taking place in Baku.
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On August 30, at approximately 22:55, the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant in Metsamor was disconnected from the country's power grid, as reported by the Armenian Ministry of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure. The shutdown was caused by a lightning strike, which triggered the plant's safety systems to switch the station to a safe shutdown mode. Currently, the plant's staff is working on restarting the facility.
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