The Azerbaijani Foreign Minister, Tofig Zulfugarov, has arrived in Moscow for two days of talks, including a private meeting with the Russian Foreign Minister, Igor Ivanov.

On Saturday, the Azeri government issued a statement condemning a recent military agreement between its neighbour, Armenia, and Russia as a threat to regional security.

The agreement , which was concluded last week when the Commander of the Russian Air Force, Colonel-General Anatoliy Kornukov, visited Yerevan, involves Russia equipping Armenia with MiG-Twenty-Nine fighter jets and S-Three-Hundred anti-aircraft missiles, as well as expanding the Russian military base in Armenia.

Azerbaijan has asked Moscow to suspend military ties with Armenia until the Baku and Yerevan governments settle their territorial dispute over the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.

The mainly-Armenian enclave inside Azerbaijan triggered a six-year war between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which ended without resolving the status of Karabakh.