During a weekly briefing, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova spoke about efforts to normalize Armenian-Azerbaijani relations, including the appointment of Russian Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group Igor Khovayev as Russian Foreign Minister's Special representative for Yerevan-Baku Relations. She said that one of Igor Khovayev's main tasks is to assist his Azerbaijani-Armenian counterparts in preparing a peace agreement.
Maria Zakharova (Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman) - The Special Representative has already been actively involved in the work, held effective consultations in Yerevan, and agreed on his visit to Baku in the near future. It is known that the basis of the dialogue is the basic principles proposed by Azerbaijan for the establishment of interstate relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia. Yerevan gave a constructive response to those proposals.
Russia's mediation efforts are based on the irreplaceable experience of elaborating the statements made by the leaders of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan on November 9, 2020, January 11, November 20, 2021, which allowed to stop the bloodshed in the region, opened real prospects for solving comprehensive humanitarian problems, for the establishment of transport communication, for the delimitation of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.
