Azerbaijan is determined to make the period after the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh as painless as possible, President Ilham Aliyev said on Tuesday at a meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
"We are determined to make the post-conflict period as painless as possible, and I think by our joint efforts we have succeeded," he said.
Aliyev thanked Putin for his constant attention to the situation around Karabakh and "personal participation in resolving very important issues." "You and I have been in constant contact over the past eight months since the end of hostilities. Because our personal communication both in Moscow in January and over the phone has played a very important role in stabilizing the situation," he stressed.
The situation in the conflict zone around Nagorno-Karabakh escalated on September 27, 2020, when active hostilities broke out there. On November 9 of the same year, a trilateral statement was signed by the presidents of Russia and Azerbaijan and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, which made it possible to achieve a complete cessation of hostilities. The Azerbaijani and Armenian sides stopped at the occupied positions, a number of areas came under Baku's control, and Russian peacekeepers were deployed along the line of contact and the Lachin corridor.
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