The foreign ministers of Armenia, Russia and Azerbaijan had a three-party meeting in Moscow. Then they were joined by the American and French co-chairs. The foreign ministries of Armenia and Russia issued a statement on the outcomes of the meeting which states the necessity to fulfill the agreements reached in Vienna and Saint Petersburg and the need to continue contacts. Judging by this piece of public information, Armenia has “stepped back” by agreeing to attend the three-party meeting but did not give up on its reconditions which were actually reported in the meeting of Vienna. They are mostly two, the stationing of investigation mechanisms of investigations at the line of contact and the status of Artsakh. Besides, Armenia seems to have insisted on the precondition of resolving those two problems. Evidence to this is the statement on continuation of “contacts”. The western co-chairs of the Minsk Group did not leave Armenia alone, like after the meeting in Saint Petersburg where Moscow and Baku tried to neutralize the agreements reached in Vienna. On the day of the meeting Azerbaijan killed an Armenian serviceman at the line of contact. In this respect, the spokesperson for the Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Baku thereby demonstrated that it cou...
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