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17:55, 16 March, 2021 YEREVAN, MARCH 16, ARMENPRESS. Foreign Minister of the Republic of Artsakh David Babayan, who is on a working visit to Armenia, met in Yerevan with the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde on March 16. Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Artsakh in the Republic of Armenia Sergey Ghazaryan and other officials participated in the meeting. As ARMENPRESS was informed f...

Below is the full article. On November 10, 2020, a Russia-brokered ceasefire agreement halted a forty-four-day-long Armenia-Azerbaijan war over the disputed territory of Nagorny Karabakh, confirming a decisive Azerbaijani military victory. Three months later, the dust has not settled from the latest war. Although it completely altered the balance of power between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the November agreement was far from a true peace treaty and left many issues unresolved. The enormous human s...

The end of fighting reversed roles of victor and defeated, as Armenians were forced to give up the land they had won in the conflict of 1991–1994. Azerbaijan regained the seven districts around Nagorny Karabakh that it had lost in the first war, providing the opportunity for at least half a million Azerbaijanis to return home after being displaced for more than twenty-five years. Azerbaijan also captured around one-third of Nagorny Karabakh itself, including the town of Shusha, forcing more t...

Artsakh Foreign Minister David Babayan Artsakh Foreign Minister Davit Babayan sent letters to the specialized agencies of the United Nations and the Council of Europe, as well as the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs and the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on Tuesday highlighting the current dire situation faced by Armenian servicemen and civilians who are illegally held captive in Azerbaijan. The letters states that Azerbaijan, by violating the November 9, 2020 trilateral st...

View Gallery: ARF leaders Ishkhan Saghatelyan and Davit Ishkhanyan meet with Artsakh National Security Chief Vitaly Balasanyan ARF leaders with Artsakh Foreign Minister David Babayan Leaders of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation who on Monday met with Artsakh Foreign Minister and National Security chief prioritized border security during their talks. “During our visit to Artsakh we had official meeting with Artsakh’s National Security chief Vitaly Balasanyan and Foreign Minister David Ba...

A recent visit by Armenia’s Foreign Minister Ara Aivazyan to Artsakh, where he met with his counterpart, the newly appointed David Babayan, has angered Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev

share Print BAKU -- Azerbaijans Foreign Ministry has protested a visit of Armenian Foreign Minister Ara Aivazian to the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region, calling it a provocation and "an attempt to incite tension." Aivazian visited the region on January 5 , where he met with the separatist government’s de facto Foreign Minister David Babayan and signed a program of consultations. Leyla Abullayeva, a spokeswoman for Azerbaijans Foreign Ministry, said in a statement that Aivazians "illegal" vi...

What’s new? A Russian-brokered ceasefire between Armenia and Azerbaijan ended a six-week war in and around Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan regained most of the territory it lost to Armenian forces in the first war, which ended in 1994. Russian peacekeepers have deployed to Nagorno-Karabakh.  Why does it matter? Decades of failed negotiations after the first Nagorno-Karabakh war hardened positions on both sides, which culminated in 2020’s six weeks of bloodshed. Today, the ceasefire plan l...

“We are broken,” Ararat, a taxi driver, said while driving through central Stepanakert pointing out the destruction caused by the war. The new maternity hospital had its windows shattered during shelling; opposite, a cemetery for fallen soldiers was full of flowers and wreaths brought by the families of victims of the recent 44-day conflict which was ended by a November 10 ceasefire. “It was a terrible war,” the 35-year-old continued. “It is very difficult to carry on and get back on ...