{"id":7002,"date":"2023-09-20T22:09:48","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T17:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=7002"},"modified":"2023-09-20T22:09:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T17:09:50","slug":"putin-hopes-for-peaceful-resolution-in-karabakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/news\/putin-hopes-for-peaceful-resolution-in-karabakh\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin hopes for &#8216;peaceful&#8217; resolution in Karabakh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday he hoped for a &#8220;peaceful&#8221; resolution to the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, without mentioning a ceasefire agreement between Armenian separatists and Azerbaijan.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We are in close contact with all the sides of the conflict: with authorities in Yerevan, with (separatist Karabakh) authorities in Stepanakert and in Baku,&#8221; Putin said during a meeting with China&#8217;s Foreign Minister Wang Yi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I hope that we can reach de-escalation and transfer a solution to this problem onto a peaceful course,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was unclear if the footage, distributed by state television, was recorded before or after a ceasefire announcement in Karabakh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was unable to comment on a ceasefire agreement announced by the Karabakh separatists and Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t have the details yet,&#8221; he told reporters during a daily briefing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier Wednesday Azerbaijan announced it had halted its military operation in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, after separatist Armenian forces agreed to lay down their arms and hold reintegration talks.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday he hoped for a &#8220;peaceful&#8221; resolution to the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, without mentioning a ceasefire agreement between Armenian separatists and Azerbaijan. &#8220;We are in close contact with all the sides of the conflict: with authorities in Yerevan, with (separatist Karabakh) authorities in Stepanakert and in Baku,&#8221; Putin said during [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":7003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,2,2621,2622],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-news","category-russia","category-russia-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}