{"id":23551,"date":"2023-04-25T21:54:35","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T21:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/russia-holds-talks-with\/"},"modified":"2023-04-25T22:02:24","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T22:02:24","slug":"russia-holds-talks-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/russia-holds-talks-with\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia holds talks with Armenia on easing Armenia-Azerbaijan tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211;     The Russian foreign ministry said late on Tuesday that it held talks with Armenian counterparts on the need to ease tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.<\/p>\n<p>Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin met with Armenia&#8217;s two deputy foreign ministers and urged them to intensify efforts to normalise the situation in the region.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The current situation in the region &#8230; causes serious concern,&#8221; the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement on its website. &#8220;The need to step up efforts on all tracks of the Armenian-Azerbaijani normalization was outlined in accordance with (ceasefire) agreements.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Azerbaijan on Sunday established a checkpoint at the start of the Lachin Corridor, the only road route linking Armenia to Nagorno-Karabakh, in what Armenia called a &#8220;gross violation&#8221; of a Moscow-brokered 2020 ceasefire agreement between the two sides. <\/p>\n<p>The U.S. has said it was &#8220;deeply concerned&#8221; about the checkpoint.<\/p>\n<p>Nagorno-Karabakh is internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan but largely populated by ethnic Armenians. <\/p>\n<p>In 2020, Azerbaijan made significant territorial gains in a six-week war that killed thousands on both sides, before Moscow struck a ceasefire deal that included the dispatch of a Russian peacekeeping force to the region.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Lidia Kelly in Melbourne, editing by Deepa Babington)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/russia-holds-talks-with\/file-photo-a-service-member-of-the-russian-peacekeeping-troops\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3O0YA-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3O0YA-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; The Russian foreign ministry said late on Tuesday that it held talks with Armenian counterparts on the need to ease tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin met with Armenia&#8217;s two deputy foreign ministers and urged them to intensify efforts to normalise the situation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":23552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-world-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3O0YA-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23553,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23551\/revisions\/23553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}