“The parties continued to exchange views on current issues of the bilateral, regional and international agenda.

Special attention was paid to the discussion of the Nagorno-Karabakh problem in the context of the implementation of the provisions of the statement signed on November 9 this year.

leaders of Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia, ”the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

On December 18, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received Director of the FSB of Russia Alexander Bortnikov, they discussed a trilateral agreement on Nagorno-Karabakh. 

On December 24, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Valery Gerasimov, said that the Russian peacekeeping contingent in Nagorno-Karabakh was deployed to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe and protect the local population.