MOSCOW – The president of Azerbaijan said Saturday he hopes the ceasefire that ended a six-week war with Armenia this month will lead to improving relations between the countries.President Ilham Aliyev made the statement as a high-level Russian delegation visited Azerbaijani's capital, Baku.
The delegation, which included Russia's foreign and defense ministers, also visited the Armenian capital, Yerevan. Russia negotiated the ceasefire signed last week, under which Azerbaijan is to regain sizeable areas of land that had been under the control of ethnic Armenian forces since a previous war in the early 1990s.
The agreement is backed by the presence of nearly 2,000 Russian peacekeepers.“I hope that today’s ceasefire and our further plans to.