(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 19. Azerbaijan and
Armenia have got closer to a common vision on the peace treaty and
on a number of discussed articles, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey
Lavrov said, trend reports.
Lavrov made the remark on the sidelines of a trilateral meeting
with the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia - Jeyhun
Bayramov and Ararat Mirzoyan in Moscow.
"Peace treaty is a special issue. The parties have started
working on it, and it's now being actively discussed, including
with the involvement of other mediators,” he noted.
The Russian minister reminded that the Armenian and Azerbaijani
foreign ministers visited Washington, the Prime Minister of Armenia
Nikol Pashinyan and President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev visited
Brussels a week ago.
“Work on a peace treaty is, of course, fundamental, but our
partners today confirmed that without resolving issues of
delimitation, opening transport and economic communications,
without a general improvement in the security situation in Karabakh
and on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, it's difficult to move
forward on specific aspects of the peace treaty," he said.
Lavrov also noted that the Azerbaijani and Armenian ministers
expressed gratitude to Russia for the leading role in the common
efforts reflected in the trilateral statements signed by the
Azerbaijani, Armenian and Russian leaders [following the 2020
second Karabakh war], and in those contacts that continue in each
of the directions mentioned by him.
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