Armenia has actually frozen its participation in the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said during an interview with Greek newspaper Kathimerini, Trend reports.
The US State Department reacted to Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's remarks regarding the urgency of border demarcation with Azerbaijan, Trend reports.
Vedant Patel, Principal Deputy Spokesperson of the US State Department said during a briefing that the US continues to pay close attention to this issue.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Russian President Vladimir Putin made a joint statement on Jan. 11.
"We, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan I. Aliyev, Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia N. Pashinyan and President of the Russian Federation V. Putin declare the following:
Below, we publish without comment, the text of the joint statement of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan – I. G. Aliyev, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia – N. V. Pashinyan and the President of the Russian Federation – V. V. Putin, announcing the framework of the peace agreement signed between Azerbaijan and Armenia with the mediation of the Russian Federation.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev announced that the Azerbaijani troops liberated Shusha city, Russian political analyst Sergei Markov wrote on his Facebook page.
“This is the main moment of the war,” Markov said. "One can say that the second Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh war ended with the complete victory of Azerbaijan."
According to a statement in the “Jamanak Daily”, Armenia and Russia have reached an agreement on the state visit of Nikol Pashinyan to Russia in February 2020 and the visit of Vladimir Putin to Armenia in the autumn.
In 2020 a new agreement is going to be signed to almost double the potential of the 102nd Russian base in Gyumri. The last was stated by the Russian Minister of Defense - Sergei Shoigu, during his recent visit to Yerevan.
