ArmInfo. Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan expressed his belief that the countries of the South Caucasus know the regional problems better than anyone and can solve them.
The head of the Turkish Foreign Ministry spoke at the opening of the third meeting of the South Caucasus Regional Cooperation Platform (3+3), held in Istanbul with the participation of Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov, Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Fidan welcomed the delegations from Azerbaijan, Armenia, Iran, and Russia noting that this event serves as a consultative platform for ensuring permanent peace in the South Caucasus and assessing cooperation opportunities.
The minister recalled that the idea of establishing this mechanism in the "3+3" format emerged a few weeks after the signing of the trilateral declaration on November 9, 2020, which secured a ceasefire in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone. "The goal of the platform is to address all issues closely connected to the South Caucasus," Fidan said, as reported by Anadolu.
