Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia Zohrab Mnatsakanyan yesterday held phone talks with his Estonian counterpart Urmas Reinsalu.

As reported the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, Minister Mnatsakanyan informed his Estonian counterpart about the situation created as a result of the large-scale war that Azerbaijan unleashed against Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) and Azerbaijan’s war crimes that are manifested through the deliberate targeting of the peaceful population and civil infrastructures, inhumane treatment and brutal murders of Armenian prisoners of war under their control, as well as the ongoing and deliberate shelling of religious and historical monuments.

Assessing the efforts of the co-chairing countries of the OSCE Minsk Group for cessation of fire, Mnatsakanyan considered Azerbaijan’s failure to implement the October 10 and October 17 ceasefire agreements reached through the mediation of the Russian Federation and France inadmissible. In this context, Mnatsakanyan expressed his deep concern over Turkey’s negative impact on the processes unfolding in the region and reaffirmed Armenia’s position on the need for the establishment of a sustainable verification mechanism for cessation of fire.