STEPANAKERT. - Foreign Minister of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) Karen Mirzoyan today received members of the Pontian Federation of Greece, who had arrived in Artsakh on a study visit.

Karen Mirzoyan welcomed the visit of the members of the Pontian Federation of Greece to the NKR considering it as a manifestation of the Armenian-Greek traditional friendly relations. He underscored the importance of such visits in terms of getting acquainted with the political, educational, cultural and social life of Artsakh.

During the meeting, Karen Mirzoyan briefed the guests on the current situation in the process of peaceful settlement of the Azerbaijani-Karabakh conflict, referring to the large-scale military aggression unleashed by Azerbaijan against the NKR on April 2-5, as well as its consequences. In this regard, the NKR Foreign Minister noted that in their brutality, the war crimes committed by the Azerbaijani armed forces did not differ from the Genocide committed against the Christians in the Ottoman Empire a century ago.

Apart from this, the sides exchanged views on the possibilities and prospects of establishing relations between the Pontian Federation of Greece and Artsakh, in particular, its Greek community.