Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev met with the Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg. They discussed the situation with the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
"The conflict is lingering, and as Russia and other co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group said a status quo is unacceptable. We fully support this statement," Aliyev said at the meeting.
"But for changing the status quo, there is the need to start de-occupation of Azerbaijan’s territory that has been occupied for more than 20 years," TASS cited the Azerbaijani leader as saying.
Ilham Aliyev saids that at talks with Putin he plans to discuss the issue of Nagorno-Karabakh in detail. "We have hope that we will be able to give a constructive dynamics to the negotiating process that has been almost not held for the past two years," Aliyev said
He also has expressed gratitude to Russian leader Vladimir Putin for his initiative to hold a trilateral meeting with the Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents and for Moscow’s constructive role in the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement.
