No:065/19, Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov received Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Azerbaijan Mikhail Bocharnikov
On March 7, Minister Elmar Mammadyarov received Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Azerbaijan, Mikhail Bocharnikov, at his request.
The sides exchanged views on several issues in the agenda of bilateral relations, including the development of cooperation in economic, trade, cultural, humanitarian and other spheres, as well as the continuation of successful collaboration in multilateral formats.
Ambassador M.Bocharnikov, upon the instructions from his authorities, invited Minister Elmar Mammadyarov to take part in the next meeting of the CIS Council of Foreign Ministers scheduled for April 5 in Moscow.
Minister Elmar Mammadyarov expressed his thanks for this invitation. The Foreign Minister underlined the strategic nature of the existing relations between Azerbaijan and Russia and stressed the role of the RF as one of the Co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group in the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement process. In this regard, it was underlined that the participation of the Russian state officials in the second meeting of the Russia-Armenia Lazarev Club, which took place in Moscow on March 5-6 with the participation of representatives from the illegal regime created in the territories of the Republic of Azerbaijan occupied by the Republic of Armenia, has caused the Azerbaijani side's protest. The Minister also said that our dissatisfaction with the invitation of representatives of this illegal regime to the first meeting of the above-mentioned Club held in Yerevan late last year, where the provocative statements against the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Azerbaijan were made, has been delivered to the Russian side. It was pointed out that such cases contradict the normative legal framework defining the basis of the Azerbaijani-Russian bilateral relations as well as Russia's role as mediator.
At the meeting, the sides also exchanged views on the recent regional and global developments.