Visits to Armenia of U.S. and Russian officials will establish a new balance of power in the Caucasus and reduce the risk of renewed hostilities in the region to a minimum.
A two-day official visit of Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev to Armenia began today. Settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has been one of the main topics of recent discussion between the two nations. That was also discussed during the visit of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov to Yerevan on 3 October, which coincided with a call on Armenia from the U.S. State Department representative Matthew Bryza, one of the OSCE Minsk Group curators, to recognize Nagorno-Karabakh as a territory of Azerbaijan.
The blitz visits to Yerevan of the US Assistant Secretary Daniel Fried and NATO's special representative for South Caucasus Robert Simmons at the end of last week also showed States
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