President Vladimir Putin of Russia on Wednesday said his country and government are always ready to assist Armenia and Azerbaijan to accelerate the peace talks.
Putin made the remarks during a meeting with President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan on the margins of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s summit currently underway in Astana, Kazakhstan.
“We are always ready to continuously support the normalization of relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan and to advance the peace agenda,” Putin said.
The Russian leader also praised relations with Azerbaijan, saying that if the two leaders met every month there would ample issues to discuss.
“We discussed the North-South project in Moscow last time. There have been positive developments since then, and we will talk about that,” Aliyev was quoted as saying by the APA news agency.
“We are determined to expand the infrastructure of the corridor on the Azerbaijani territory. Although it physically exists, it does not correspond to the intentions of our partners and neighbors to maximize the use of this project,” the Azerbaijani leader added.
Putin also praised Aliyev for advancing the teaching of the Russian language in Azerbaijan, with Aliyev pledging that his government has plans to increase the use and education of Russian within its school system.
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