Armenia-Russia-Azerbaijan working group to meet "in near future"

PanARMENIAN.Net - A meeting of the trilateral working group on Nagorno-Karabakh, co-chaired by the vice-premiers of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, will take place in the near future, according to Maria Zakharova, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

and contacts are scheduled to be held in Baku through the Foreign Ministry by the end of this week. This was announced on Thursday at a briefing by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova.

The diplomat noted that Russia considers trilateral agreements reached by the leaders of the three countries as the basis for advancing the process of normalization of Armenian-Azerbaijani relations and continues to work actively with Baku and Yerevan in all directions, including unblocking economic and transport ties, launching the process of delimitation of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, agreeing on a peace treaty.

"As for border issues, contacts are planned in Baku through the Foreign Ministry by the end of this week,” Zakharova said.

The Deputy PMs of Armenia, Russia and Azerbaijan first meet in person on January 30, 2021 in Moscow to discuss new transport communications that would link Armenia, Russia and Azerbaijan. New rail and road routes in the South Caucasus are expected to connect the Azerbaijani Autonomous Republic of Nakhichevan with the rest of the country, for which a road will be built through the territory of Armenia. There will also be road and rail routes through the territory of Azerbaijan to connect Armenia to Russia.