The parties agreed to "settle the dispute based on the recognition of mutual sovereignty and territorial integration" and to discuss all issues in accordance with the UN Charter and the 1991 Alma-Ata Declaration.

The initiative for a peaceful resolution of the conflict appeared a month after the fiercest clashes between Armenia and Azerbaijan since 2020.

In a statement on the website of the Kremlin, it is said that all participants of the negotiations, which took place on October 31 in Sochi, noted the importance of launching tripartite inter-parliamentary contacts to strengthen trust.

The international community recognizes Nagorno-Karabakh as a sovereign territory of Azerbaijan, but since the early 1990s, Baku has not controlled most of the region.

As a result of the fighting, in the fall of 2020, Azerbaijan and Armenia, with the mediation of Russia, signed an agreement on the cessation of hostilities.

Tension in the region persists.

On the night of September 12-13, fighting took place on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, Baku and Yerevan accused each other of aggression and provocations.

In mid-October, with the mediation of the European Union, the parties agreed on the work of the European monitoring mission along the border of Armenia and Azerbaijan.

In the September escalation of the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, more than 200 people were killed: in Yerevan, the death of 135 of their military was recognized, in Baku they told about the deaths of 77 Azerbaijani servicemen.

This is the most serious escalation in the last two years.