A plate on the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. File photoDUSHANBE, May 12.The trilateral meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the Russian Federation, Azerbaijan and Armenia Sergey Lavrov, Jeyhun Bayramov and Ararat Mirzoyan is taking place in Dushanbe. three, which will allow us to continue joint work on monitoring the implementation of tripartite statements that were previously adopted at the highest level. «We are interested in turning the South Caucasus into a zone of peace, sustainable development, and prosperity,» Lavrov said. According to him, Moscow is interested in increasing trust between the parties and creating conditions for a full-fledged Armenian-Azerbaijani normalization.The Armenian Foreign Minister announced Putin's visit to the country «I hope that today's meeting will allow us to move forward along the path that was drawn by our leaders,» he said. Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Bayramov noted in his opening speech that this meeting «is a good opportunity to discuss progress that can be achieved.» Bayramov expressed regret that «so far no progress has been made in opening transport communications.» «I know that contacts between colleagues continue. And we believe that there is a good prospect, a good the opportunity to achieve results and achieve the implementation of tripartite statements in full,” he said. the composition and representativeness of the parties in the delimitation commission, and I also think that in the near future it will be possible to at least start this process».Blinken discussed the peace process with Armenia with the President of Azerbaijan «For our part, we are ready to begin work on a peace treaty and believe that today's meeting, continued contacts will have a positive impact on the continuation of the discussion on this topic,» Bayramov said. At the beginning of the meeting, Mirzoyan noted that Armenia has been and remains committed to the implementation of all agreements and statements between the leaders of the three countries. «We are ready to continue all work in the current formats: to open communications of economic infrastructures in the region, and on a peace treaty, or, as it is probably more correct to call it, an agreement on the normalization of relations, establishment of relations, and to resolve all remaining problems, including humanitarian ones, the release of prisoners of war and other problems that remain unresolved,» the head of the Armenian Foreign Ministry said. According to the Armenian Foreign Ministry, during the meeting, Mirzoyan confirmed the position of the Armenian side regarding ensuring Karabakh Armenians, as well as the statue Nagorno-Karabakh as part of a comprehensive settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.» The Armenian Foreign Minister also stressed the need to immediately address the humanitarian problems caused by the 44-day war (escalation of the conflict in autumn 2020 — ed.), including the return of Armenian prisoners of war to their homeland» , the Armenian Foreign Ministry said. Before that, Lavrov held separate meetings with colleagues from Azerbaijan and Armenia. At the end of September 2020, hostilities resumed in Nagorno-Karabakh, which became a continuation of a long-term conflict and led to civilian casualties. The parties made several attempts to conclude a truce, but the tripartite agreement reached on the night of November 10 was successful. With the mediation of Moscow, Azerbaijan and Armenia agreed to a complete ceasefire and exchange of prisoners and bodies of the dead. Yerevan also handed over to Baku the Kelbajar and Lachin regions, as well as part of the Aghdam region, which since 1994 have been under the control of the unrecognized NKR. In addition, Russian peacekeepers have been stationed in the region.
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