At a meeting with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said they would discuss the settlement in the South Caucasus and Armenian-Azerbaijani relations. The Russian leader noted that on the eve of the informal CIS summit, a trilateral conversation with Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev took place on the sidelines.
"You and I started [the conversation] yesterday, and the three of us managed to talk. Of course, the main issue is the settlement of the situation in the South Caucasus as a whole, Armenian-Azerbaijani relations, everything related to Karabakh," Putin said as he opened the bilateral meeting with the Armenian prime minister.
The Russian leader also recalled that a meeting of the Russian-Armenian intergovernmental commission took place recently. "Our colleagues stated that we have a very positive situation in the economic sphere: over ten months of this year, there has been a 73% increase in trade turnover. This is a good result," he said, and invited his interlocutor to discuss all these issues in detail.
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Based on materials from TASS