Azerbaijan and Armenia Pursue Peace and Transport Unblocking
President Ilham Aliyev and Russian Secretary Sergey Shoigu report progress in the normalization of relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia in the South Caucasus.
Azerbaijan and Armenia continue efforts to normalize relations, though a peace agreement initialed over a year ago remains formally unsigned. Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan, expressed hope that the process will yield concrete results during a joint press statement with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on November 8.
Following these remarks, Sergey Shoigu, Secretary of the Russian Security Council, stated on November 9 that the establishment of peace in the region is yielding results and improving the situation in the South Caucasus. Speaking at a meeting of the Commonwealth of Independent States in Moscow, Shoigu emphasized that regional issues must be resolved through political and diplomatic means without the intervention of foreign countries.
Shoigu specifically highlighted the importance of unblocking regional transport communications based on existing working group agreements, provided that such logistics projects are economically justified.
