The trilateral meeting in Moscow lasted only twenty minutes. It is the shortest ever held by Vladimir Putin with his Azerbaijani counterpart, Ilham Aliyev, and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.
The three men have been meeting regularly since the "second Nagorno-Karabakh war" in autumn 2020, won by Baku. The Kremlin hoped to get an agreement signed at least on the re-establishment of the railways between the two Republics of the South Caucasus.