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Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov has said in an interview with a number of media

The statement came from Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in his interview to Inerfax.

Russian Deputy FM Grigory Karasin and Turkey’s Ambassador to Russia Aydin Sezgin discussed on Thursday the issues related to Karabakh peace process, Russian MFA said in a statement.

Aliev and Ivanishvili have a unique opportunity to define the future of the Caucasus region, but there could be difficult negotiations ahead.

Senior expert on strategic Iranian Foreign Ministry, former Ambassador to Armenia, Mohammad Farhad Culaini told in his interview with Irdiplomacy.ir

Permanent Representative of the Republic of Armenia to the United Nations Karen Nazaryan said in his speech at the open discussion dubbed "Post-conflict peacebuilding" that was hosted in UN Security Council on December 20.

Alexander Iskandaryan, Director of the Caucasus Institute, political expert, told media, on Monday.

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Department of State had appointed Ian Kelly as the acting co-chair.