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Lavrov Passes on Putin's Greetings to Azerbaijani President During Visit to Baku



BAKU, November 19 (Sputnik) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov
passed on Russian President Vladimir Putin's greetings to Azerbaijani
leader Ilham Aliyev during an official visit to Azerbaijan's capital
city of Baku.

"You [the Azerbaijani president] have recently met with the Russian
president in Tehran on November 1. He sends you his warmest
greetings," Lavrov said during a meeting with Aliyev in the
Azerbaijani leader's residence.

Lavrov stressed that Moscow remained committed to the implementation
of all agreements it reached with Baku and noted that Russia, as a
co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, was interested in seeking a
resolution to the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.

In early November, Putin and Aliyev participated in trilateral talks
in Tehran together with their Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani,
during which they emphasized the need to resolve unsettled conflicts
in the region as soon as possible.