PanARMENIAN.Net - Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has said he believes in the normalization of relations between Baku and Yerevan, TASS reports.

Aliyev told reporters on Wednesday, February 24 that Baku officially declared its desire to sign a peace treaty with Armenia.

"Probably, at some stage this will happen, but in the current geopolitical realities, we must be realistic, we must not wish for what is impossible to achieve, but we must move towards establishing a lasting peace in the Caucasus," Aliyev said.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Russian and Azerbaijani Presidents Vladimir Putin and Ilham Aliyev on November 9, 2020 signed a statement to end the war in Karabakh after almost 45 days. Under the deal, the Armenian side returned all the seven regions surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh, having lost a part of Karabakh itself in hostilities.