Aliyev says hopes 2023 will see breakthrough in normalization between  Baku and Yerevan

ArmInfo. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on Monday he hopes that 2023 will be a breakthrough year in the process of the normalization of relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia, TASS reports. 

"I hope that 2023 will be a breakthrough year in terms of the  normalization of relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia. At least  we hope for that," he said at a meeting with visiting Russian Foreign  Minister Sergey Lavrov.

The Azerbaijani leader thanked the Russian government and the foreign  minister personally for their active participation in this process.  "I think that Russia, as put friend, ally and neighbor, plays a  special role in promoting the normalization of interstate relations  between Azerbaijan and Armenia," he stressed.

He noted that major efforts were made last year toward settling  relations between Baku and Yerevan.  "Document outlining the  conceptual character of a future peace treaty were adopted. It was  stated that mutual recognition of territorial integrity and  sovereignty of the two countries is the basis which can be used to  move toward a peace treaty, and it was confirmed by the documents  signed last October in Prague and Sochi," Aliyev said.

"Anyway, we are set to work positively and constructively with the  Armenian side and the Russian side as our friend and neighbor to turn  over this page of hatred and bring peace back to the South Caucasus,"  he added.