Russian FM: Baku-Yerevan peace deal to be signed based on Almaty declaration

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that a peace treaty between Baku and Yerevan will be signed based on the Almaty Declaration.

He made the remarks at a joint press conference following the talks with the Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov in Moscow on December 5, APA reports.

On December 21, in Alma Ata (present-day Almaty), Kazakhstan, eleven states signed a protocol formally establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The Alma-Ata Protocols were the founding declarations and principles of the CIS. The leaders of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus had agreed to the Belovezh Accords on December 8, 1991, dissolving the Soviet Union and forming the CIS.