Andrei Rudenko
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko arrives in Azerbaijan
Baku/03.06.21/Turan: Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko arrived in Baku on June 3, the press service of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry reported.
Today Rudenko held consultations with the Deputy Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Khalaf Khalafov. The main topic of the meeting was issues of bilateral strategic partnership, the report said.
The day before, trilateral consultations were held in Moscow with the participation of representatives of Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia. The topic of the conversation was the situation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. There was no official information about the participants in the meeting. However, the Armenian media reported that the deputy chief of the General Staff and the Border Forces participated in the meeting from the Armenian side, the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service from the Azerbaijani side, and the commander of the peacekeepers in Karabakh, Murad Rustamov, from the Russian side.
Apparently, Rudenko will coordinate the agreements reached in Moscow with the leadership of Azerbaijan. Murad Rustamov went to Yerevan on a similar mission. -02D-
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