On January 11, 2021, as a continuation of the Russian Federation’s mediation mission and at the initiative of President Vladimir Putin, a trilateral meeting was held in Moscow with the participation of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. Following this meeting, the parties reached an agreement on matters related to the restoration of transportation, including railway, road, and combined transit, as well as issues of security, border control, customs, sanitary, veterinary, phytosanitary, and other types of oversight. However, despite the time that has passed since then, Armenia has yet to fulfill its obligations and continues to obstruct the opening of the Zangezur Corridor under various pretexts.
On June 15, 2021, following a one-on-one meeting between the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, and the President of the Republic of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the “Shusha Declaration on Allied Relations between the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Republic of Turkey” was signed in the city of Shusha. With this Declaration, Azerbaijan and Turkey reaffirmed their strategic alliance through a significant and historic document.
On November 16, 2022, by the order of President Ilham Aliyev, the “First State Program on the Great Return to the Liberated Territories of the Republic of Azerbaijan” was approved. With this, the Republic of Azerbaijan entered a new phase in its history—characterized by large-scale reconstruction and development projects in its liberated lands—paving the way for sustainable peace, progress, and setting an example for many countries.