Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) shakes hands with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev before a meeting with leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region's future at the Kremlin in Moscow on January 11, 2021. (MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV / SPUTNIK / AFP)
MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev on Saturday discussed over phone the ongoing efforts to secure the Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire, the Kremlin said.
The two sides welcomed the launch of the joint Russian-Turkish center "for monitoring the ceasefire and any military activities in the conflict zone," it said in a statement.
The presidents expressed hope that the center's efforts will contribute to the further stabilization of the situation around Nagorno-Karabakh and the proper observance of the agreement reached by the presidents of Azerbaijan and Russia and the prime minister of Armenia in November 2020.
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"The two leaders also discussed some issues of Russian-Azerbaijani bilateral cooperation," it added.