(MENAFN- AzerNews)
By Sabina Mammadli
Azerbaijani Deputy Prime Minister Shahin Mustafayev and his
Armenian and Russian counterparts - Mher Grigoryan and Alexei
Overchuk respectfully, held the 10th meeting of the Tripartite
Working Group n Moscow on June 3.
According to the information, the parties discussed and brought
together their positions on issues of border, customs and other
types of control, as well as the safe passage of citizens, vehicles
and goods on roads and railways through the territories of
Azerbaijan and Armenia.
Furthermore, the sides exchanged views on possible routes for
the passage of the highway, which provides transport links between
the western regions of Azerbaijan and the Nakhchivan Autonomous
Republic through the territory of Armenia.
It was mentioned that the parties will continue to work on the
implementation of the agreements between the leaders of the three
states regarding the unblocking of transport links in the
region.
Azerbaijani Deputy Prime Minister Shahin Mustafayev and Russian
Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk have signed a number of
documents as part of the 20th meeting of the Azerbaijan-Russia
Intergovernmental Commission on April 26.
On May 24, the first meeting of border delimitation commissions
led by Azerbaijani Deputy Prime Minister Shahin Mustafayev and his
Armenian Mher Grigoryan was held on the on the state border in line
with the agreement reached between the leaders of the countries in
Brussels.
The parties confirmed their willingness to cooperate on
delimitation and other matters within the commission's framework.
The conference also discussed the commission's joint operations'
organizational and procedural difficulties.
To recap, on May 23, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed decrees on the creation
of border delimitation and security commissions.
The trilateral ceasefire deal signed by the Azerbaijani, Russian
and Armenian leaders on November 10, 2020, ended the three-decade
conflict over Azerbaijan's Karabakh region which along with the
seven adjacent districts came under the occupation of Armenian
armed forces in the war in the early 1990s.
The deal also stipulated the return of Azerbaijan's Kalbajar,
Aghdam and Lachin regions. Before the signing of the peace deal,
Azerbaijan liberated 300 villages, settlements, city centers, and
historic Shusha city that had been under Armenian occupation for
about 30 years.
On January 11, 2021, the Azerbaijani, Russian and Armenian
leaders signed the second statement since the end of the 44-day
war. The newly-signed statement was set to implement clause 9 of
the November 2020 statement related to the unblocking of all
economic and transport communications in the region.
On November 26, 2021, the three leaders signed a statement and
agreed on a number of issues, including the demarcation and
delimitation of the Azerbaijani-Armenian border by late 2021, some
points related to humanitarian issues and the issue of unblocking
of transport corridors which applies to the railway and to
automobile communications.
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