Speaking at a joint presser with Tajikistani Foreign Minister Sirojiddin Muhriddin, Sergey Lavrov, who is on a visit to Dushanbe on Wednesday, pointed out that Russia is willing to offer its mediation in the Armenian-Azerbaijani border demarcation talks.
"We, in our turn, informed our friends in detail about the effort that the Russian Federation makes to resolve the incident that arose due to the absence of international legal registration of the [Armenia-Azerbaijan] state border. In line with a preliminary agreement between the sides [Armenia and Azerbaijan], the Russian Federation offered its assistance to start and conduct delimitation, demarcation of the border, as it came up with an initiative to create a special joint Armenian-Azerbaijani commission, in which Russia could take part as a consultant or a mediator", Lavrov said.
The bilateral talks with the Tajik counterpart came ahead of the meeting of Foreign Ministers from member nations of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) that will be held today in Dushanbe.
CSTO is an intergovernmental alliance that was established in 1992 and now includes Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan.
