Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov spoke about the Armenian-Azerbaijani settlement process at a press conference dedicated to European security.
"After the war's end, tripartite statements talked about carrying out a political process and leaving the issue of Karabakh's status to the future. When we met in Sochi at the end of October, we wanted to address this issue, understand how ready our partners are to resolve all problems and leave the Karabakh status issue for later.
But when Aliyev and Pashinyan came to Sochi, they brought the document that said they wanted to sign a peace treaty based on the UN Charter and the Alma-Ata Declaration. And that declaration clearly states that the borders of the new states are based on the administrative boundaries of the former states of the USSR, where the autonomous region of Nagorno Karabakh is a part of Soviet Azerbaijan. That is why, when the Armenian partners, having signed the agreement, say: let Russia reaffirm its proposals on the status of Karabakh, you also understand that it is not from the operation of conducting negotiations, but from another place," Lavrov noted.
