ArmInfo. Moscow notes the generally constructive approach demonstrated by both Baku and Yerevan within the framework of the trilateral working group chaired by the deputy prime ministers of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia.
This was stated during the weekly briefing by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, commenting on the statements of the President of Azerbaijan along the corridor through Zangezur. She recalled that the main task of this working group is to implement the agreements reached at the highest level between Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia on unblocking all transport and economic ties in the region.
"We hope that such an orientation towards the positive and the search for mutually acceptable points of contact will prevail both in official comments and in the media space of Armenia and Azerbaijan," she said. At the same time, she refused to comment on the statements of the President of Azerbaijan on March 5, including the invitation to the countries of the Economic Cooperation Organization to use the possibilities of the future corridor through the territory of Armenia. “It seems to me that it will be strange if I comment on such a statement by the Azerbaijani President. We have our own relations with this state, they are developing, including in the economic sphere, summed up Zakharova.
Note that President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, speaking at the summit of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) on March 5, said that Baku, Ankara and Tehran intend to jointly develop transport projects in the region, Yerevan can also benefit from them if it behaves normally. At the same time, he assured that the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is a thing of the past, adding that they say the trilateral statement of November 10, 2020 provides for the construction of a transport corridor that will connect Azerbaijan writh the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic and Turkey, which creates new ropportunities by calling on the ECO member states. join him. In this vein, Aliyev expressed territorial claims to the Republic of Armenia, calling Zangezur (Syunik) a historical Azerbaijani territory.