Sergey Lavrov: We should not draw parallels between Kosovo and KarabakhApril 3, 2007 - 18:33 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - "We should not draw parallels between Kosovo and the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, and generally there are no similar two conflicts in the world," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated to a joint press conference with RA Acting Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian in Yerevan. He said, when Marti Ahtisaari's report is introduced in the UN Security Council Russia will vote against. "We will agree the variant, which will satisfy both Pristina and Belgrade," the RF FM stressed. He also noted, the international law is the basic rule for settling conflicts. In his part RA Acting Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian also underlined that every conflict should be solved separately and every conflict has its own peculiarities. Top stories Authorities said a total of 192 Azerbaijani troops were killed and 511 were wounded during Azerbaijan’s offensive. In 2023, the Azerbaijani government will increase the country’s defense budget by more than 1.1 billion manats ($650 million). The bill, published on Monday, is designed to "eliminate the shortcomings of an unreasonably broad interpretation of the key concept of "compatriot". The earthquake caused a temporary blackout, damaged many buildings and closed a number of rural roads. Partner news | Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. Ucom launches network modernization efforts in few regions of Armenia In particular, on March 28, the legacy Mobile Switching Subsystem will be replaced with a new one. |