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Lavrov Backs Armenia

YEREVAN, Armenia — Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday urged Armenia and Turkey to move ahead with a historic rapprochement, and Yerevan said it hoped that Ankara was not blocking ratification of their deal to end a century of hostility.

The accords need parliamentary ratification, a step that Turkey says depends on Armenia making concessions in a festering conflict with Azerbaijan over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Armenia rejects the link, and won the backing of Lavrov. “To try and artificially link those two issues is, in my opinion, not correct,” Lavrov told reporters in Yerevan.

(Reuters)

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