YEREVAN. Sept 13 (Interfax) - The leaders of a number of foreign countries have expressed the readiness to organize a meeting between Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.
"I expressed such readiness [for a meeting with Aliyev] in telephone calls, and mediators expressed their willingness to work to organize such a meeting," Pashinyan said during a government Q&A session at the parliament, answering a question about the possibility of a meeting of the two leaders.
On September 9, Pashinyan had telephone calls with the Georgian prime minister, the state secretary of the United States, the president of Iran, the chancellor of Germany, and the president of France.
The Armenian government's press service said in statements released following the phone calls that during them, Pashinyan expressed the readiness for urgent discussions with Aliyev in order to reduce tensions.