Russia Concerned About U.S. Threats Regarding Nagorno-Karabakh, Says Russian Foreign Ministry

The Russian side is alarmed by reports suggesting that Washington is attempting to impose mediatory services in the dialogue between Baku and Stepanakert. This was stated by the Russian Foreign Ministry in an interview with RIA Novosti.

"We are concerned about the information that has appeared in the press, that the U.S. is now trying to impose its mediatory services between Baku and Stepanakert, including through threats of the use of force," the ministry said.

It is noted that the U.S. has recently been actively engaged in the resolution of Armenian-Azerbaijani relations. In February, a trilateral meeting took place in Munich involving Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, together with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Additionally, a meeting between the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan was supposed to take place in Washington on June 12, but it was postponed at Baku's request.

It is worth reminding that earlier a diplomatic source in the U.S. informed RIA Novosti that Washington is coercively demanding that representatives of Nagorno-Karabakh meet with Azerbaijani representatives in a third country, threatening with an Azerbaijani counter-terrorism operation if they refuse. According to the agency’s interlocutor, the lobbying of the American peacekeeping initiative is being conducted by Sergey Ghazaryan, the foreign minister of Nagorno-Karabakh, whose interests align completely with those of Azerbaijan.