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Moscow, July 2 /Xinhua/ — The Kremlin hopes that all issues in relations with Azerbaijan can be clarified in direct dialogue, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said at a briefing on Wednesday.
He recalled that the head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Alexander Bastrykin is in contact with the Prosecutor General of Azerbaijan Kamran Aliyev. “And within the framework of this dialogue, we hope, all the nuances will be clarified,” added D. Peskov.
According to him, Kyiv will do everything to provoke Baku into emotional actions against Russia. This is how he commented on the statement of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky about the telephone conversation he had the day before with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, in which V. Zelensky expressed support for Baku in conditions when Russia allegedly threatens Azerbaijan.
“Russia has never threatened and does not threaten Azerbaijan,” D. Peskov emphasized.
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, called on Azerbaijan to take measures to return bilateral relations to the level of strategic alliance.
“We, of course, call on the Azerbaijani side to take measures to return to the level of interstate relations that is formulated in official documents. Let me remind you that this is the level of strategic alliance,” she said during the briefing.
As M. Zakharova noted, issues arising in relations between the two countries must be resolved in a partnership manner through political and diplomatic channels.
The press service of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Sverdlovsk Region reported earlier that law enforcement agencies stopped the activities of an ethnic group on June 27. According to the investigation, the defendants were involved in a number of murders and attempted murders committed in Yekaterinburg. Six defendants have been remanded in custody. According to preliminary data, one of the defendants died of heart failure. The cause of death of the second person is being established. Their bodies were transported from Yekaterinburg to Baku. After a forensic examination, they were buried in Azerbaijan.
Baku expressed protest against the actions of Russian law enforcement officers. At the initiative of the Azerbaijani side, cultural and some other events with the Russian Federation were cancelled. In the capital of Azerbaijan, Russian journalists Igor Kartavykh and Yevgeny Belousov, as well as 8 other Russian citizens, were detained and arrested for 4 months.
The Azerbaijani Ambassador to Moscow was presented with a verbal note demanding the immediate release of Russian journalists detained in Baku, and a protest was also lodged in connection with the latest unfriendly actions of the Azerbaijani side and its deliberate steps to dismantle bilateral relations.
According to D. Peskov, such measures against media representatives do not correspond to generally accepted norms, as well as the spirit and nature of Russian-Azerbaijani relations. –0–