OREANDA-NEWS Azerbaijan and Russia were able to turn around a difficult stage of relations and normalize the entire range of relations, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov said.

"We are pleased to note that our two countries have been able to turn this difficult stage in our relations around and fully normalize the entire range of Russian-Azerbaijani relations," Bayramov said during talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

Bayramov linked the restoration of relations with the personal position of the presidents of the two countries, noting that a full-fledged normalization process became possible after the bilateral meeting of the leaders of Russia and Azerbaijan in October 2025 on the sidelines of an international event in Dushanbe. "The relations between our countries are of the nature of allied cooperation," the head of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry stressed.