Becoming a Russian Oligarch After Rebirth
Chapter 1156 - 978: Bold Plan

Chapter 1156: Chapter 978: Bold Plan

"It’s quite simple, carrots and sticks, a combination of soft and hard tactics, one way or another, we must get them both to sit down and resolve the dispute through negotiations," said Wang Ye, shrugging.

His father-in-law nodded thoughtfully and said casually, "Then leave this task to you. I don’t trust anyone else to handle it."

He might not even realize that he’s developed a ’path dependency’ on Wang Ye!

Whenever he faced a thorny issue, the first person he thought of was Wang Ye...

Perhaps he could have handled the matter himself, but what if he hit a snag? Would he still have any face left?

So, the best solution was to have Wang Ye step forward. After all, he was the ’Director of the National Council for Foreign Affairs,’ and this was within his remit.

That way, if something unexpected happened and Wang Ye returned unsuccessful, he could still cover for him.

If everything went smoothly, that would be even better. At the Collective Security Meeting, he would take the stage and have Azerbaijan and Armenia publicly sign a peace agreement, thus highlighting his influence in the regional countries!

The media, when reporting the news, wouldn’t pay attention to who was behind the peace agreement...

With the task at hand, what else could Wang Ye do? In his position, he had to plan his career, and he could only smile wryly and nod.

He reckoned that he’d rest in Moscow for a day before he had to travel on official visits again.

And this time, he was heading directly to two countries: Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Believe it or not, he hadn’t visited these two countries in this life or the previous one.

It’s just that these countries were too small and inconspicuous. If it weren’t for that war, many people would probably not know about these two countries...

...

As was his usual practice before a visit, Wang Ye had Yelena collect all the data on Armenia and Azerbaijan, especially on the current high-level political figures.

After studying it thoroughly and discussing it with specialists who were familiar with these two countries, he then had the Ministry of Foreign Affairs issue the note, preparing for the visit.

However, this time he didn’t bring a large entourage discreetly.

He only brought a few members from the Foreign Affairs Committee and the head of the military department, that is, Shao Yigu...

Along with assistants and secretaries, the group totaled less than twenty people.

The first stop was Armenia.

This country was very small, covering less than thirty thousand square kilometers with a population just over two million, and a national GDP of less than ten billion US dollars...

The capital, Yerevan, could barely be considered a big city, since it had a population of about one million, nearly half the nation’s population concentrated here!

The special plane landed at the capital’s airport, where the Prime Minister of Armenia, Narban, was leading a welcoming party awaiting their arrival.

After all, the country was too small, and in facing the ’giant’ Russia, they couldn’t be too concerned with diplomatic equivalence, plus Wang Ye’s visit was with the purpose of helping them solve the ’Nagorno-Karabakh dispute,’ so it was normal for them to welcome him with a higher standard.

Narban, just over fifty this year, came from a journalist background, had studied in the United States, and was in a suit and shoes, looking quite refined.

Just coming down the gangway, he was greeted by two little children aged four or five holding flowers, part of the welcoming ceremony.

Wang Ye smiled broadly, squatting down and warmly picked up a child on each side, holding them up.

This was a golden opportunity to display a ’people-friendly’ image, and he certainly wouldn’t miss it...

Sure enough, when Wang Ye picked up the two children, a thunderous applause erupted, and the cameras of all the journalists at the scene flashed brightly.

But it was only because Wang Ye was young and strong that he could easily lift the two little ones.

If it were someone else, they’d be ’old men’ in their fifties or sixties or even older, even if they wanted to show off, they wouldn’t have the ’strength’ to do it...

Just like his visit to Kiev, Wang Ye shook hands cordially with Narban, and they introduced their accompanying personnel to one another.

Then everyone got into cars, police cars cleared the way, and they sped off to the government building.

...

Since the purpose of the visit was clear, namely to help resolve the dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Wang Ye got straight to the point as they sat down in the large conference hall.

"I heard there have been signs of conflict again in the border regions between your country and Country A. How is the situation now?" Wang Ye asked with concern.

At this, Narban struggled to control his emotions.

He said angrily,

"Country A has gone too far!

It’s well known that over eighty percent of the residents in the Nagorno-Karabakh region are Armenian, and they have repeatedly stated or voted since the eighties of the last century that they want to join our country.

This is the will of the people and conforms with the general international laws!

But Country A has always tried to obstruct this and even engaged in aggressive actions against the Nagorno-Karabakh region!

..."

Wang Ye listened quietly to Narban’s ’complaints’ against Country A.

He had already done his homework on this so-called ’Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.’

The issue was simple yet complicated, a tangled mess...

If you traced it back to the beginning, the Nagorno-Karabakh region was first ’taken’ from Persia by Tsarist Russia Empire and had once been part of its territory.

Later, during the Former Soviet Era, for ease of management, the Nagorno-Karabakh region was allocated to Azerbaijan.