ArmInfo.After a trilateral meeting with the heads of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Ilham Aliyev.
As reported on the official website of the Kremlin, welcoming the guest, the head of the Russian Federation noted that, naturally, the most important event of last year is the difficult situation and its difficult course in Nagorno-Karabakh.
<But I want to express my satisfaction that we still managed to end the hostilities, bloodshed. And, as we just spoke about the results of today's work, the peacekeeping mission is fulfilling its function, and the situation as a whole is gradually returning to normal. And the fact that today we have reached the signing of a joint Statement, which is based on the desire to resolve the situation in the long term, - in my opinion, is extremely important, "he said.
But outside the context of the events related to the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement, as Vladimir Putin said, we also have a bilateral agenda. And in this regard, I would like to note once again and express my gratitude for the joint work, which is related to the way we celebrated the 75th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. This was a very bright event for all our countries, for all countries in the post-Soviet space, because we all took part in the struggle for freedom and independence of our common homeland at that time.
Today, relations between Russia and Azerbaijan are developing very successfully. This applies primarily to the economic component. We have many areas of joint work and many coinciding interests in this area - in the area of economics.
I very much hope that the work to resolve the situation in the South Caucasus in general will bring benefit, as I just said, to our bilateral relations as well. I proceed from the fact that this settlement will allow us to build our relations even closer, on an even more systematic basis, not only in the economy, but also in the humanitarian field.