Karabakh settlement process discussed in Moscow

The Armenian, Russian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers held a working meeting in Moscow on Friday.

According to the press release of the Armenian Foreign Ministry, FMs Edward Nalbandyan, Sergey Lavrov and Elmar Mamedaroyv discussed the current stage of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement.

The press release did not elaborate as to what exactly the diplomats discussed.

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict sparked in the early 1990s when Karabakhi Armenians voiced their intention to live independently from Azerbaijan after more than six decades of autonomy and sporadic clashes between the two nations that intensified after 1988.

Later, the tension spiralled into pogroms against Armenians in Sumgait, Baku and Nagorno Karabakh that turned into a bloody war, leaving around 30,000 killed and more than a million displaced.  Read more... (157 words)

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