/TASS/. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said he hopes Russia and Armenia will hold talks at the highest level to have a frank discussion of the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh.
“Nikol Vovayevich Pashinyan said that they appreciate what they had with Russia. It’s hard to overestimate what Russia has done for security, economy, sovereignty, and what we had and have in our relations should be appreciated. I hope [he] will in communication with Russian President [Vladimir Putin], where it will be possible to discuss this (the situation around Nagorno-Karabakh – TASS) frankly, without the reasons that our Western ill-wishers throw in,” he said in an interview with the Sputnik, Govorit Moskva and Komsomolskaya Pravda radio stations.
The Azerbaijani presidential aide and head of the foreign policy department of the administration of the head of state, Hikmet Hajiyev, said on Wednesday that according to the decision of the top leadership of Russia and Azerbaijan, Russia started to withdraw its peacekeeping troops from Nagorno-Karabakh on Wednesday, ahead of the end of their mandate. Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed the troops pullout.
