{"id":95971,"date":"2020-10-09T13:50:28","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T05:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=95971"},"modified":"2020-10-09T13:50:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T05:50:30","slug":"putin-invites-azerbaijani-armenian-fms-for-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=95971","title":{"rendered":"Putin invites Azerbaijani, Armenian FMs for talks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>MOSCOW, Oct 9 (NNN-BERNAMA-ANADOLU) &#8212; Russian President Vladimir Putin has invited the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia to Moscow for peace talks Friday, reported Anadolu Agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe president of Russia is issuing a call to halt the fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh on humanitarian grounds in order to exchange dead bodies and prisoners,\u201d the Kremlin said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The statement said Putin held a series of phone talks with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov would mediate the peace talks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Relations between the two former Soviet republics have been tense since 1991&nbsp;when the Armenian military occupied Nagorno-Karabakh, also known as Upper Karabakh, an internationally recognised territory of Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New clashes erupted on Sept. 27, but international calls for a halt to the fighting have gone unanswered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The OSCE Minsk Group \u2013&nbsp;co-chaired by France, Russia, and the US \u2013&nbsp;was formed in 1992 to find a peaceful solution to the conflict, but to no avail. A cease-fire, however, was agreed upon in 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW, Oct 9 (NNN-BERNAMA-ANADOLU) &#8212; Russian President Vladimir Putin has invited the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia to Moscow for peace talks Friday, reported Anadolu Agency. \u201cThe president of Russia is issuing a call to halt the fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh on humanitarian grounds in order to exchange dead bodies and prisoners,\u201d the Kremlin said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":95972,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,209,291],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95971"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/95972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}