On August 11, Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan held a phone conversation with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
Following up on the recent conversation between the two countries’ leaders, Mirzoyan briefed his Russian counterpart on the agreements reached in Washington on August 8, notably the initialing of the Armenia-Azerbaijan peace treaty, the joint proposal to dissolve the OSCE Minsk process and related structures, and the reaffirmed fundamental principles on unblocking regional communications.
Mirzoyan thanked Lavrov for his congratulations and support at this important stage.
The two ministers also discussed issues of bilateral cooperation between Armenia and Russia.
On August 8, at the White House, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, U.S. President Donald Trump, and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed a joint declaration summarizing the results of their trilateral meeting. In the presence of the leaders, Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan and Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov initialed the “Agreement on Peace and Establishment of Interstate Relations between the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan.”
