Asenior European Union diplomat met with Armenia’s leaders in Yerevan on Tuesday to discuss ways of reviving the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process after last month’s escalation that nearly triggered a full-scale Armenian-Azerbaijani war.
Herbert Salber, the EU’s special representative to the South Caucasus, met President Serzh Sarkisian, Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian and Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian as part of international efforts to prevent another flare-up of violence in the Karabakh conflict zone.
Salber also held separate talks in Yerevan with Karen Mirzoyan, the foreign minister of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.
The Armenian presidential press office said Sarkisian and Salber stressed the importance of specific confidence-building that would reduce the risk of renewed fighting along “the line of contact” around Karabakh. It said Sarkisian briefed the visiting envoy on the consequences of “Azerbaijan’s destructive and bellicose stance.” The Armenian leader also called for international condemnation of war crimes which he said were committed by the Azerbaijani military in Karabakh.
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