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Following is Kommersant.ru s article: Another Influential Player Has Emerged In The Transcaucasian Conflict: Pakistan Against the backdrop of the dispute over the Turkey s role in the hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh, another influential player has emerged in the Transcaucasian conflict: Pakistan. In an interview with the Indian TV channel WION, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said that militants from Pakistan are also taking part in the Karabakh war. With this statement, the Armenian leader continued the polemic with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, who earlier called the previous statements of Yerevan that soldiers from Turkey and Pakistan are fighting on the side of Baku to be an absolute lie. However, while denying military assistance from Pakistan, Baku does not hide, that the Karabakh conflict has led to a close rapprochement of Azerbaijan, Turkey, and Pakistan, creating a new strategic triangle in Eurasia.
January 13, 2021
ANKARA
Turkey’s foreign minister held a one-on-one meeting late Wednesday with his Azerbaijani counterpart in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad.
Mevlut Cavusoglu and Jeyhun Bayramov met after a dinner hosted by Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmoud Qureshi in honor of his Turkish and Azerbaijani counterparts.
Cavusoglu said on Twitter that the two discussed the latest developments in the Nagorno-Karabakh region in Azerbaijan.
Posting with the “TekMilletIkıDevlet” [One Nation Two States] tag, Cavusoglu said Turkey will “continue to support our Azerbaijani brothers and sisters in building peace.”
Karabakh dispute
Relations between the former Soviet republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan have been tense since 1991, when the Armenian military occupied Nagorno-Karabakh, internationally recognized as an Azerbaijani territory, and seven adjacent regions.
Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Tuesday held talks with leader of Afghanistan s Hezb-e-Wahdat-e Islami party Karim Khalili in Islamabad on the war-torn country s peace process.In a statement, the Foreign Ministry in Islamabad .
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