MOSCOW. July 26 (Interfax) - Russia stands for the soonest unblocking of the Lachin corridor linking Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, and for bringing the life of Karabakh people back to normal, the Russian Foreign Ministry said following Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's trilateral and separate one-on-one talks with his Azerbaijani counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov and Armenian counterpart Ararat Mirzoyan in Moscow on July 25.
"The Russian side emphasized the need for the soonest possible unblocking of the Lachin corridor and restoration of normal life for the population of Nagorno-Karabakh," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement published on its website on Tuesday evening
At their talks, "the ministers focused on an analysis of joint efforts to deescalate the situation around Nagorno-Karabakh and to advance the process of normalizing Azerbaijani-Armenian relations in accordance with the provisions of the statements [adopted] by the leaders of Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia, dated November 9, 2020, January 11 and November 26, 2021 and October 31, 2022," it said.
"The foreign ministers reaffirmed the importance of intensifying work on all tracks of the trilateral agreements, including the unblocking of transport routes, the delimitation of the border between Azerbaijan and Armenia, as well as contacts between public figures and experts and the launch of a dialogue between parliamentarians. Special attention was given to the issue of negotiations on a peace treaty between Baku and Yerevan with a focus on overcoming the remaining disagreements," the ministry said.
Lavrov's meeting with Bayramov addressed "the main topics on the bilateral agenda as well as international and regional issues," it said.
"The ministers discussed cooperation in the Caspian Sea and as part of the North-South International Transport Corridor project, and spoke in favor of resuming interaction within the 3+3 consultative regional platform," the ministry said.
At their one-on-one meeting, Lavrov and Armenia's Mirzoyan "analyzed the most important aspects of the Russian-Armenian agenda, including in the economic and humanitarian fields," and agreed to continue effective cooperation within the integration associations in which both Russia and Armenia participate, such as the Eurasian Economic Union, the Collective Security Treaty Organization and the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Russian ministry said.