Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Azeri counterpart Ilham Aliyev held a telephone conversation on Monday during which they discussed the implementation of agreements also reached with Armenia on the border region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
The two leaders had not spoken on the phone since late November and have now agreed to push forward the implementation of the trilateral agreements to ensure security on the Armenia-Azerbaijan border and restore transport routes through the area.
«We have addressed some practical aspects of the agreements reached in November 2020, January and November 2021, as well as in October this year, including plans to restore economic and logistical relations in the South Caucasus,» Putin said, according to a Kremlin statement.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have been involved in several clashes in recent years over the control of Nagorno-Karabakh, a territory with a majority Armenian population that has been the focus of conflict since it decided to separate in 1988 from the region of Azerbaijan integrated into the Soviet Union.
