Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov is on a visit to
Moscow, where he met Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and replied to
his proposals on the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process, Russian Foreign
Minister Sergey Lavrov said, Russia-24 reports.
Lavrov handed the proposals to Azerbaijani and Armenian Presidents
Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sargsyan on July 8. The Russian minister said
that Moscow is working on the issue within the OSCE and with the
assistance of the USA and France.
Mammadyarov says that not everything depends on Azerbaijan in the
process. The region needs stability, he added.
Kazan hosted a trilateral summit of the Russian, Armenian and
Azerbaijani presidents. It was followed by Sergey Lavrov's visit to
Yerevan and Baku, where he handed over Medvedev's proposals on
settling the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
The Russian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers exchanged ratification
notes on the state border agreement of September 3, 2010.
The document was signed in Baku. Russia is the first state to sign
such deal with Azerbaijan. Medvedev signed the document on June 27,
2011. The border runs from the Caspian Sea to the crossing point of
Russian, Azerbaijani and Georgian borders, which will be determined by
a separate trilateral deal.
Russia and Azerbaijan agreed to synchronize realization of the
document within the coming into force of the inter-governmental
agreement on use and protection of water resources of the Samur River,
signed in 2010.
The modern border is based on the administrative border of the Russian
and Azerbaijani Soviet Republics. The border is 284 km long.
