Turkey welcomed the adoption of the joint declaration by Armenian, Azerbaijani and Russian Presidents at the Astrakhan meeting, Anadolu agency reports.

“We welcome that Armenian and Azerbaijani Presidents agreed on several humanitarian issues during the Astrakhan summit,” Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

“Turkey hopes that the Astrakhan Summit will make positive contributions to the peace process and give new impetus to the efforts to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute. We also wish that steps to be taken on humanitarian issues will be supported with concrete initiatives in other areas. Turkey is determined to fully support initiatives that will serve creation of a ground for compromise between the parties,” the Ministry said.