❗️The second round of negotiations between representatives of Baku and Stepanakert has started in Khojaly (Ivanyan), Azerbaijani media report.

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🇺🇸🇦🇲 Senior Biden administration officials were to arrive in Armenia on Monday, a U.S. official told Reuters.

🔸 The visit by U.S. Agency for International Development chief Samantha Power and U.S. State Department Acting Assistant Secretary for Europe and Eurasian Affairs Yuri Kim would be the first by senior U.S. officials to Armenia since a ceasefire last week.

🇷🇺🗣️Important statements by Dmitry Peskov:

- Moscow hopes that Aliyev's meetings, including with Erdogan, will help ensure security and normalize life in Karabakh;

- The Russian peacekeepers in Karabakh are showing real heroism, no one can blame them for not fulfilling their duties;

- So far, it is hardly possible to talk about the timing of the presence of Russian peacekeepers in Karabakh;

- There are no concrete plans for organizing a trilateral meeting of the leaders of the Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan yet;

- The Russian Federation categorically does not agree with the attempt to assign responsibility for the situation around Karabakh to Moscow and Russian peacekeepers;

- The Russian Federation will continue contacts with Pashinyan and its activities to respect all the rights of the Armenians of Karabakh;

- The Russian Federation is against attempts by those countries that do not have mediation potential on Karabakh to fix their presence in the region.

🗣️ Ilham Aliyev, at a joint press conference convened after the meeting with Erdogan in Nakhichevan, referring to the meeting held today between representatives of Artsakh and the Azerbaijani side, said that he had not yet been informed about it, but he "hopes that the process of integration of the Armenian population of Karabakh will successfully become a reality."

🇷🇺 The message of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan on Independence Day contains unacceptable attacks against Russia and cannot but cause rejection.

💬 Obviously, there is an attempt to absolve oneself of responsibility for failures in domestic and foreign policy, shifting the blame to Moscow.

🔸 The latest statements of Nikol Pashinyan confirm our earlier conclusions that the processes that are destructive for our own country and our allied relations, inspired by the West and spurred on by official Yerevan, are not episodic, but systemic in nature.

[Russian MFA]

❗️ As of 17:00 on September 25, 6 650 forcibly displaced persons have entered Armenia from Nagorno-Karabakh.

💬 The situation was also aggravated by the fact that official Yerevan stubbornly denied the presence of Armenian armed formations in Nagorno-Karabakh after November 9, 2020, which became one of the key reasons for the last September escalation. [Russian MFA]

📣 A number of humanitarian issues were discussed at the meeting of representatives of Artsakh and Azerbaijan, including the progress of search and rescue operations of the dead and missing after the hostilities.

🔸 The need to restore natural gas supplies, uninterrupted operation of the energy system and the water supply was stressed.

🏥 The representatives of Artsakh stressed the importance of transporting the wounded, pregnant women, children and citizens in need of emergency medical care to specialized medical institutions of the Republic of Armenia.

📌 The parties reached an agreement on this issue and outlined the agenda for the next meeting.

[NKR InfoCenter]

❗️A gas warehouse exploded near the Stepanakert-Askeran highway.

🏥 There are dead and wounded.

[SSES of Artsakh]

🇷🇺🇦🇲🇦🇿 Russian peacekeepers did not record violations of the ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh on Monday.

[RF MoD]

🗣️ International organizations, first of all the International Committee of the Red Cross, Russian peacekeepers stationed in Artsakh should urgently open an air corridor for the rapid delivery to medical institutions of Armenia of the wounded as a result of the recent hostilities in Artsakh and the catastrophic explosion that occurred today. [MP Tigran Abrahamyan]

❗️In order to save the lives of the victims of the explosion of a fuel depot in Artsakh, there is an urgent need to evacuate them by air. The exact number of wounded and dead is still not possible to clarify.

📌 In the Republican Medical Center and the Children's Hospital of Stepanakert, medical assistance is provided to the victims in conditions of limited medical and medicinal capabilities, but this is not enough. [Human Rights Defender of Artsakh]