ArmInfo."Moscow did not receive official notifications from the Turkish side about the quadripartite meeting, although we saw this information in the media." This was stated on September 19 during a weekly briefing by official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, in response to a request to comment on the Turkish President's statement on Ankara's proposal to hold a four-party meeting (Russia, Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan) to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
At the same time, she noted that Moscow traditionally maintains close contact with Ankara on various aspects of the international agenda, including the situation in the South Caucasus, within the parameters of the 3+3consultative regional platform.
Earlier, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan proposed that the leaders of Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia hold a quadripartite meeting to discuss the prospects for resolving the long-standing ethnopolitical conflict. <We conveyed this proposal. In other words, I myself, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan are in it. "I said, let's meet and discuss together the steps that need to be taken," he concluded.