ArmInfo.Any contacts that help relieve tension or irritation between Baku and Yerevan are welcomed by Moscow. This was stated on November 2 during a weekly briefing by official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, in response to a request to comment on the meeting of the prime ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Tbilisi.
"We welcome everything that benefits the parties and the region as a whole. For our part, we proceed from the fact that the road map for normalizing bilateral relations remains a set of trilateral agreements at the level of the leaders of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia in the period from 2020 to 2022. It includes the signing of a peace treaty between the two parties, unblocking economic and transport ties in the South Caucasus, border delimitation, dialogue at the level of civil society and much more," she noted.
As for further progress on all these tracks, Zakharova continued, I would like to reconfirm our readiness to organize a trilateral meeting of the foreign ministers of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan in Moscow.
On October 27, Prime Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan Nikol Pashinyan and Ali Asadov, through the mediation of head of the Georgian government Irakli Garibashvili, held a meeting in Mukhrani, near Tbilisi. Details of the negotiations have not been disclosed. However, according to the Georgian TV channel Imedi, the meeting of the three prime ministers lasted several hours.