Russia, France and US call for end to fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh
In the highest-level intervention in the crisis since it erupted on Sunday, leaders of the three powers call for a return to negotiations without delay
01 October 2020 - 19:15
Moscow — Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a joint call with his US and French counterparts, Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron, for Armenians and Azerbaijanis to halt their worst fighting in decades over disputed land.
“We call for an immediate cessation of hostilities between the armed forces of the parties involved,” the presidents’ joint statement said, the highest-level intervention in the crisis since it erupted on Sunday. The leaders “condemn in the strongest terms the escalation of violence” over Nagorno-Karabakh, according to the statement on the Kremlin’s website...
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