I hope that, as a result of negotiations with Azerbaijan, will be able to have Marat Ueldanov-Galstyan returned to Russia, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at Wednesday’s press conference.

“That specific topic was raised during the last negotiations with Azerbaijani associates,” Lavrov noted, in particular.

Also in this regard, the Russian FM expressed the hope that it will be possible to achieve a result which everyone will benefit from, and by way of discourse and of decisions based on legal norms.

“And [as a result], we will be able to return that citizen to Russia,” he added.

Marat Ueldanov-Galstyan is a Russian citizen of Armenian origin. In July 2016, he was arrested in Azerbaijan, and on charges of “illegal acquisition, production, possession and distribution” of a large quantity of “narcotics.”