Pashinyan: the participants of the trilateral meeting have eliminated a number of discrepancies on some issues Azerbaijani leader Ilham Aliyev passed in a positive manner, the parties openly discussed pressing problems. Pashinyan stated this after the talks.
According to the head of the Armenian government, the sides clarified their positions on many issues. “There are no discrepancies on some issues, as it seemed before this meeting,” Pashinyan said. In particular, this concerns the issue of unblocking transport and economic communications, the Prime Minister of Armenia added.
In addition, at a meeting with Putin and Aliyev, Pashinyan said that it is necessary to create security mechanisms at the border to start work on delimitation and demarcation. “If on the basis of this meeting it is possible to create dynamics, then concrete results can be expected,” he concluded.
Putin said that the parties had signed a joint trilateral statement. The negotiators discussed the implementation of the statement of November 9, 2020 on a complete ceasefire and all hostilities in the zone of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, as well as the statement of January 11, 2021 on the unblocking of all economic and transport links in the region. In addition, the leaders agreed to create a bilateral commission on the delimitation of the state border between Azerbaijan and Armenia with its subsequent demarcation with the consultative assistance of Russia at the request of the parties.
Aliyev said that the decisions made at the trilateral meeting in Sochi will contribute to a safer and the predictable situation in the South Caucasus. The politician also noted that Azerbaijan is ready to turn the page of many years of confrontation with Armenia, to begin a stage of normal interaction.