Russia is ready to provide all diplomatic assistance to Azerbaijan and Armenia in signing a peace treaty between them, the principles of which were recently published by the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Vestnik Kavkaza.
“We welcome the willingness of the parties to negotiate and are ready to facilitate this,” Maria Zakharova said in the first place, emphasizing that decisions on the final peace agreement will be made by the contracting parties, and Russia will participate as a mediator if necessary.
"Of course, the parties will resolve all issues among themselves. Russia will provide them the necessary assistance. Of course, I mean the negotiation process," the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry concluded.
For the normalization of relations, Baku proposed the following principles: mutual recognition of each other's sovereignty, territorial integrity, international border inviolability, and political independence; mutual confirmation of the absence of territorial claims by states against one another, as well as a legal obligation to refrain from making such claims in the future; refrain from threatening each other's security in interstate relations, from using threats and force against political independence and territorial integrity, from acting in ways that are inconsistent with the goals of the UN Charter; delimitation and demarcation of state borders, as well as the establishment of diplomatic relations; the establishment of other relevant communications and cooperation in other areas of mutual interest, as well as the opening of transport and communications.
