Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Saturday met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who is visiting Yerevan, the Armenian government reported.

They discussed the situation in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), and the agenda of Armenian-Russian relations.

On November 9, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, and Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a joint statement on a complete cessation of hostilities— which Azerbaijan had launched on September 27—in and around Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh). Accordingly, Russian peacekeepers are deployed in the region to monitor the implementation of the ceasefire and the cessation of hostilities.