The Russian Foreign Ministry will study the possibility of rejection of a treaty of friendship with Turkey
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova confirmed today that her office received a request of the State Duma deputies with a proposal to terminate The Agreement of Friendship with Turkey signed in 1921. According to her, everything will be done in accordance with established procedure, and a proposal will be studied. The representatives of the Communist Party faction offered on 9 February denounce the treaty, accusing Turkey of "consistently aggressive behavior."
This offer by two Russian deputies caused a surge of optimism in Armenia, which thinks that after the cancellation of the Agreement, Russia will be obliged to take Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan and return it to Armenia. It is not clear on what is based this "optimism" of Armenians. The agreement between Russia and Turkey in 1921 defined the current border between Turkey and Russia, which then included Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia. -02В-
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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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