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The history of the Karabakh war goes back decades. And when Armenia kept the seven regions around Azerbaijan for many years, and then when there was desperation to resolve the issues politically, Russia was proposing many options, which the former leadership of Armenia did not perceive very well, positively—wanting to keep the territories it never claimed. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said this on Thursday, in an interview with the Russia-24 television and the RIA Novosti agency.

"Yes, Azerbaijan returned the lands that belong to it. Now, when both Armenia and Azerbaijan, together with the European Union, have signed a document on their readiness to conclude a peace treaty under the conditions specified in the Almaty Declaration of December 1990, well, it is difficult for us to decide on future steps because the Almaty Declaration states that a new the borders between the independent states will pass through the administrative borders of the Soviet Union, the union republics, including the Armenian SSR and the Azerbaijan SSR. The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region was part of the Azerbaijan SSR. So, there is a multi-layered situation here," the Russian FM added.

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