Lavrov comments on agreement between Yerevan and Baku

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, speaking at a meeting with students and faculty at MGIMO University, stated that it remains to be seen how the agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan—reached in the United States—will work in practice. He noted that the initial enthusiastic reactions have since been replaced by more skeptical assessments, according to RIA Novosti.

“We need to see how it will work, because all the enthusiastic reviews that emerged in the first few days after the Washington meeting were later replaced by skeptical assessments once the document was published. As it turns out, not everything has been agreed upon,” Lavrov said.

He emphasized that the agreement signed by Yerevan and Baku in the US stems from the accords reached between the presidents of Russia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia from 2020 to 2022.

“It was Russia, represented by President Putin, that played a decisive role after the outbreak of the so-called Second Karabakh War. The President secured an agreement signed by Prime Minister Pashinyan and President Aliyev in November 2020. After that, a series of trilateral summits were held, during which agreements were reached on unblocking economic ties and transport routes,” the Russian Foreign Minister added.