Nalbandian in Peru. Armenian Foreign Minister announces he will meet his Azerbaijani counterpart in Paris later this month.

Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian started his diplomatic work for 2014 with an official visit to Peru, the first by an Armenian Foreign Minister to this Latin American country.

Speaking at the Peruvian Foreign Ministery in Lima, Nalbandian announced that he will be meeting his Azerbaijani counterpart, Elmar Mammadyarov in Paris in the second half of January. The meeting will take place in the framework of the work of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chair. The two Ministers last met in December in Kiev on the margins of the OSCE Ministerial Conference. Mammadyarov and Nalbandian are trying to push forward with discussions aimed at resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The two Ministers were asked to work on the issues after the meeting of the Presidents of the two countries in Vienna in November 2013.

In Peru Minister Nalbandian was received by the country's Foreign Minister Eda Rivas.

Diplomatic relations between Armenia and Peru were established on 9 September 1992. The Peruvian Foreign Minister described the visit of Nalbandian as an important boost to bilateral relations. Peru wants to develop its relations with the South Caucasus according to Ministry sources.

source: commonspace.eu with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Peru

photo: Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian with peruvian Foreign Minister Eda Rivas in Lima on 6 January 2014. (picture courtesy of the Peruvian Foreign Ministry.)

Related articles

Editor's choice
News
Tensions continue between Pakistan and Afghanistan

Tensions continue between Pakistan and Afghanistan

Tensions have again increased between Pakistan and Afghanistan. At least 28 civilians were killed after Pakistan launched air strikes and sent ground troops into Afghan provinces along its border on Sunday, the United Nations Afghan mission (UNAMA), has said. A further 49 were injured and women and children were among the victims, according to UNAMA. Afghanistan's Taliban government said civilian homes were hit and described the attack as a "cowardly act" and an "atrocity". Meanwhile, Pakistan said it had targeted militant hideouts in Afghanistan's Paktia, Paktika and Kunar provinces. The neighbouring countries agreed to a ceasefire last October following weeks of deadly clashes and an agreement that has since fallen apart. Casualties were concentrated in Mandokhail, a village in the Paktia province, according to Taliban officials. Afghanistan's Taliban government put the civilian death toll at 36 and said more than 160 had been injured. Pakistan's information minister Attaullah Tarar said 29 militants had been killed in an operation responding to "recent terrorist attacks against innocent people". The BBC has not independently confirmed figures from either side. The attacks come a day after three members of the Sindh Rangers, a Pakistani paramilitary force, were killed at their headquarters in Karachi, according to Pakistan's military. Three militants also died in the suicide attack, and Pakistani officials said they had arrested a fourth, who was an Afghan. Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, a splinter faction of the TTP, claimed responsibility for Saturday's attack. Both the TTP, also known as the Pakistan Taliban, and Jamaat-ul-Ahrar are banned in Pakistan, and by the UN, because of their involvement in past attacks. Pakistan has long accused Afghanistan of harbouring terror groups that carry out cross-border attacks, a claim the Taliban government rejects.

Popular

Editor's choice
Interview
Thursday Interview: Murad Muradov

Thursday Interview: Murad Muradov

Today, commonspace.eu starts a new regular weekly series. THURSDAY INTERVIEW, conducted by Lauri Nikulainen, will host  persons who are thinkers, opinion shapers, and implementors in their countries and spheres. We start the series with an interview with Murad Muradov, a leading person in Azerbaijan's think tank community. He is also the first co-chair of the Action Committee for a new Armenian-Azerbaijani Dialogue. Last September he made history by being the first Azerbaijani civil society activist to visit Armenia after the 44 day war, and the start of the peace process. Speaking about this visit Murad Muradov said: "My experience was largely positive. My negative expectations luckily didn’t play out. The discussions were respectful, the panel format bringing together experts from Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Turkey was particularly valuable during the NATO Rose-Roth Seminar in Yerevan, and media coverage, while varied in tone, remained largely constructive. Some media outlets though attempted to represent me as more of a government mouthpiece than an independent expert, which was totally misleading.  Overall, I see these initiatives as important steps in rebuilding trust and normalising professional engagement. The fact that soon a larger Azerbaijani civil society visits to Armenia followed, reinforces the sense that this process is moving in the right direction." (click the image to read the interview in full)