Azerbaijani FM to meet Pompeo and OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs on October 23

Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov will visit Washington on October 23, according to the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry's press service.

There he will hold a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs.

The Armenian armed forces committed a large-scale provocation, subjecting the positions of the Azerbaijani army to intensive shelling from large-caliber weapons, mortars, and artillery installations of various calibers in the front-line zone on Sept. 27 at 05:00 (Msk). The command of the Azerbaijani Army decided to launch a counter-offensive operation of Azerbaijani troops along the entire front to suppress the combat activity of the Armenian armed forces and ensure the safety of the civilian population. To date, Fizuli and Jabrayil districts, including the cities of Jabrayil and Fizuli, the city of Hadrut and a number of villages in the Khojavend region, the villages of Sugovushan and Talish in the Terter region, as well as the strategically important Murovdag mountain were liberated.