MOSCOW, Jul 15 Russia is ready to organize in In the near future, the Foreign Ministers of the Russian Federation, Armenia and Azerbaijan will meet to discuss the implementation of the agreements on Nagorno-Karabakh, including the topic of agreeing on a peace treaty, the Russian diplomatic department said on Saturday.
In October 2022 and May 2023, at the summits under the auspices of the European Union, Armenia recognized Nagorno-Karabakh as part of the territory of Azerbaijan, the ministry said in a commentary.
«We respect the sovereign decision of the Armenian leadership, but this radically changed the fundamental conditions under which it was the Statement of the leaders of Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia dated November 9, 2020 was signed, as well as the situation of the Russian peacekeeping contingent deployed in the region,» the ministry stressed.
As pointed out in the Russian Foreign Ministry, «under these conditions, one should not shift the responsibility for the fate of the Armenian population of Karabakh to third countries.» «We should immediately start preparing a peace treaty between Baku and Yerevan, based on the previously reached agreements,» the ministry said. highest level, including the topic of agreeing on a peace treaty, with subsequent access to the Russian-Azerbaijani-Armenian summit in Moscow to sign the said document,» the commentary on the ministry's website says.
An integral part of the peace treaty between Baku and Yerevan » there should be reliable and clear guarantees of the rights and security of the Armenians of Karabakh, as well as the strict implementation of the entire complex of tripartite agreements between Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia,» the diplomatic department said. This includes unblocking transport communications and launching the process of delimitation of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.