Vladimir Putin hosts meeting with Armenia and Azerbaijan leaders

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, speaks during his meeting with Azerbaijan’s president Ilham Aliyev, left, and Armenian prime minister Nikol Pashinyan in the Kremlin in Moscow (Mikhail Klimentyev/AP)

Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted his counterparts from Armenia and Azerbaijan, their first meeting since a Russia-brokered truce ended six weeks of fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh.

As he sat down for talks in the Kremlin with Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev and Armenian prime minister Nikol Pashinyan, Mr Putin said that the peace agreement has been successfully implemented, “creating the necessary basis for a long-term and full-format settlement of the old conflict”.