There was a telephone conversation between the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Russia.

According to the information provided by the Moscow correspondent of APA with reference to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, on January 17, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov discussed a number of pressing issues of the bilateral and regional agenda during a telephone conversation.

The Russian side emphasized the importance of fully opening the traffic along the Lachin Corridor as soon as possible in accordance with the parameters defined in the tripartite Statement dated November 9, 2020.

The importance of achieving mutually acceptable solutions on all related issues for the restoration of comprehensive work on the main tracks of the normalization of Azerbaijan-Armenia relations based on the agreements between the leaders of Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia was also emphasized.