The Foreign Ministers of Russia and Iran, Sergey Lavrov and Mohammad Javad Zarif, had a telephone conversation during which the current situation in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) was also discussed.

The current situation in Nagorno-Karabakh was discussed, taking into account Russia's efforts to provide a complete ceasefire in the conflict zone, to provide humanitarian assistance to the civilian population affected by the [recent] hostilities, the Russian Foreign Ministry said, in particular, in the respective statement it released.

On November 9, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, and Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a joint statement on a complete cessation of hostilities— which Azerbaijan had launched on September 27—in and around Artsakh. Accordingly, Russian peacekeepers are deployed in the region to monitor the implementation of the ceasefire and the cessation of hostilities.