ArmInfo.Azerbaijan is always ready for constructive negotiations and contacts serving the settlement of the Armenian- Azerbaijani conflict, the Deputy Head of the Foreign Policy Department of the Azerbaijani Presidential Administration Hikmat Hajiyev told Trend.
He noted that at the CIS summit in Dushanbe, a conversation was held between Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. The conversation started at the initiative of the Armenian Prime Minister, Hajiyev said.
"This once again shows that the format of the negotiations remains unchanged, and negotiations are conducted only between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which are parties of the conflict. Within the framework of the same format, in September, meetings between the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan were held during the UN General Assembly in New York, and in July in Brussels. We assess this positively, and Azerbaijan is always ready for constructive negotiations and contacts serving the settlement of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict. This once again demonstrates Azerbaijan's commitment to the existing format," Hajiyev said in an interview to Trend.
To recall in Dushanbe, on the sidelines of the meeting of the heads of the CIS, there was a short conversation between the Prime Minister of Armenia and the President of Azerbaijan, at which the parties expressed their commitment to the negotiations on the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, strengthening the cease-fire to prevent incidents on the Line of Contact and on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, and also decided to develop mechanisms for establishing operational links between the relevant structures of the countries.