The Secretary of the Russian Security Council, Sergei Shoigu, at the 14th meeting of the Secretaries of the Security Councils of the Commonwealth of Nations, said that the situation in the South Caucasus is improving. According to him, positive results follow the normalization of Armenia-Azerbaijan relations and the actual establishment of peace in the region.
Shoigu emphasized the importance of opening the blockade of transport communication - agreements on this were reached within the tripartite working group of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. At the same time, he noted, all logistics projects must have economic justification and be profitable.
He also welcomed the active development of Georgian-Russian trade and economic relations. Shoigu is convinced that regional problems must be solved by political and diplomatic means, without the intervention of external countries. In this context, he pointed to the need to renew the work of the "3+3" regional consultation platform.