so, the preliminary causes of the gas explosion in a residential building in nizhnevartovsk were named by the investigative committee. the main version is the same as what was previously stated in the ministry of emergency situations by the emergency depressurization of a domestic gas cylinder. the accident happened yesterday and six people were killed. seven more are missing from the scene, our special correspondent stanislav vasilchenko reports. now heavy equipment is already working at the scene of the incident ; there is a risk

new landslides, so here, in addition to rescuers, construction engineers also work, so to speak, to advise. there are now about 200 employees of the ministry of emergency situations here, 55 units. uh, heavy equipment examines the rubble and four canine calculations are quite serious, you need to dismantle the roof. after that, he descended gradually into a low hall. wherever it is, let's say after that, we will have to extract it in extreme conditions now in nizhnevartovsk and at 5 ° e in the third entrance. by the way, where did the explosion occur all the apartments the water and heat supply of the five-story building was de-energized, according to preliminary information

, gas cylinders exploded, while the house itself was not gasified. the explosion was so strong that it destroyed the ceiling of the second and third floors, the entrance in the house. ah, the death of one person seven was officially confirmed, two more were declared missing, fragments of glass elements of the facade may be under the rubble. concrete all this scattered hundreds of meters. uh around the house. uh, the windows were broken in the next one. now they work there representatives of the management company communicate with the residents in order to evaluate in the future. we make a car. the last explosion was programmed in the evening, when many residents were already at home. here is what a local resident, who was also there this time, says. now live broadcast from the final

press conference of the main russia of azerbaijan reflected the fact that our relations today continue to progressively develop in the spirit of friendship and good neighborliness. it is difficult to overestimate in this regard the role played by regular high-level confidential dialogue between our presidents. they met six times this year. uh, more than ten telephone conversations took place. well, uh, on november 18, the first visit to azerbaijan of the representative of the government of the russian federation mikhail mishustin took place, which was timed to coincide with the eleventh russian azerbaijani our regional forum, let me remind you that more than 70 constituent entities of the russian federation are involved in the implementation of specific economic investment cultural humanitarian educational and other projects together with azerbaijani partners. this

year in september the chairman of the state duma vyacheslav volodin visited azerbaijan . i had the pleasure of visiting baku in june. today, the answer to the visit is paid to the russian federation. well, we also meet on the sidelines of various multilateral events. we also saw each other in october in astana on the sidelines of the event and the commonwealth of independent states. we have a unanimous opinion that the signing event of the outgoing year was the signing february 22 in moscow by our leaders. yes, a declaration on allied cooperation is a document. uh, without involvement is historical and sets the vector for our closest partnership of cooperation for many years ahead

, more than 20 took place this year. uh, joint events that were dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between our countries and today you have witnessed another such events of the solemn ceremony of canceling the special jubilee postage stamp and the presentation of the collection of russian azerbaijani documents. e. today we also signed another consultation plan between our ministries for 23-24. we agreed to continue constructive interaction along the line of foreign political departments. in all directions of russia, one of the leading trade partners of azerbaijan this year. the twentieth meeting of the intergovernmental commission on economic cooperation has already taken place, and over the 10 months of this year, the turnover of goods has grown impressively exceeding $3 billion, and following the results

year we expect. a record four billion dollars, the volume of our trade is on the agenda for the implementation of a number of large projects, including such important and notable ones as the production of gas trucks, the development of a russian helicopter service center and a number of other economic operators, our economic operators are ready to participate in the most active way in project local projects with azerbaijani colleagues. including in the post- conflict restoration of azerbaijani territories. we highly appreciate cultural and humanitarian educational interaction. we confirmed we will continue to strengthen our gratitude to our azerbaijani friends for their careful attitude to the russian language culture on cultural educational ties and strengthen the common linguistic educational space that binds us. we

noted you have no exchanges, two forums of youth initiatives of russia-azerbaijan were held this year in march in the azerbaijani city of gusar, and in september in nizhny novgorod - these are the first events of this kind, we agreed on all kinds of them, and to encourage and support consulted on current international regional topics. we discussed in detail the whole range of issues of the armenian-azerbaijani normalization in line with those tripartite documents that were signed, starting from november 2020, by the president of azerbaijan, russia and the prime minister of armenia, and these documents, in our common conviction, remain a solid, solid, reliable basis for a full-fledged settlement all issues, including the unblocking of transport and economic ties, including the delimitation of

the border between the not azerbaijan, we are reaching specific agreements on concluding a peace treaty. hmm, in all these areas, the russian federation is ready to provide assistance to the parties in which they are interested. their neighbor russia iran turkey, this was once the initiative of the president of azerbaijan, the first meeting was held. now we are preparing another such event and agree specific we agree on specific dates and agenda. here we agreed to continue to work closely all within the framework of the caspian five within the framework of the commonwealth of independent states and

support each other's initiatives at key international ones. in general, in my opinion, we can express satisfaction with the negotiations that took place, which, of course, will further deepen ties between russia and azerbaijan, maintain peace, stability and security in the south caucasus region. i thank my colleague for cooperation is worth it. dear sergey viktorovich dear participants of the event, dear representatives of the mass media, ladies and gentlemen, first of all, i am on my own behalf and on behalf of our delegation. i would like to thank the russian side for the hospitality and warm welcome our regular meetings and, uh, contacts sergey viktorovich have already become, uh, a good good tradition, as already noted, this year is a jew in azerbaijan, russian relations and uh, looking

at 30 years on the history of thirty -year-old establishing diplomatic relations, it can probably be noted that this is a period and uh relations - it had a character. er, progressive and dynamic er, the development of azerbaijan's relations russian relations have a very strong er, political and legal basis in this con. it would probably be appropriate to note everything, the fundamental documents, among which unambiguously include an agreement on friendship, uh, cooperation and mutual security, signed between our countries in 1997, an agreement on friendship and strategic partnership in 2008, and finally the treaty on allied cooperation, signed in this jubilee year in our country, develop inter-parliamentary and inter-regional ties, expand trade, economic , scientific, technical and humanitarian. uh, the connections

are wide the spectrum and the very active agenda of azerbaijan's russian relations is probably very accurately characterized. uh, a very large number of mutual visits and contacts. both on a bilateral basis and on the sidelines of international events during this year, during this year there were a large number of meetings contacts. hey, are you level? from our states at the level of heads of government to the relevant ministries of departments and at the level of heads of regions and in this regard, and contacts. uh, the relevant representatives of the ministry put on our personal contacts are also an integral part of this very important mesh-state mechanism. speaking of e increasing successful development, while trading economic investment

cooperation cooperation, it is very technical and humanitarian ties, of course. uh, it is worth noting separately the importance of execution approved and agreed roadmaps between our countries, it has already been noted that 2022 is another successful year and following the results of ten months. uh, trade turnover has exceeded $3 billion and that represents, uh, about twenty percent growth. we believe that this positive trend will continue until the end of this year. e, it is especially worth emphasizing e the importance and very large positive role that mish e plays, the inter-project commission of the twentieth meeting, which took place on april 26, 2022 in city ​​of uh, baku uh, discussing a large number of projects that are under development.

today we discussed separately and there was, uh, a special emphasis on necessity. we are moving forward with the north south project, which is functioning, but we believe that the potential of this project and this transnational transit route. he is much more. e, azerbaijan you know that the fathers of the territory are actively restoring the liberated attack and e with a sense of satisfaction. we would like to note that during this year. e were numerous business missions and visits of representatives of the russian federation to this territory. there are a large number of developments and we welcome the participation of russian companies in the restoration of e, liberated from the occupation of azerbaijani territories

four constituent entities of the russian federation there is an intergovernmental commission, and between our country and data e subjects. uh, a special role in this matter. e my believe that playing e platform that has been established since 2010 is talking about the platform. i mean, uh, inter-regional forum, 11, the meeting of which was held on november 17-18, 202 november 28-29. uh, a very representative delegation of the republic of tatarstan, headed by the president of the republic, mr., visited our country. uh, recently we have hosted representatives of the business community in the stavropol territory. orlovsky uh, means, uh literally , in the coming days, two more representatives of the delegation of the constituent entities of the russian federation will visit the kaliningrad and nizhny novgorod regions. eh, azerbaijan in azerbaijan has always

treated the common cultural and historical heritage with care from this point of view. we believe that the development of humane ties between our countries is one of the fundamental ones. uh elements. uh, expanding and strengthening good neighborly and friendly relations between our countries. here, of course, it stands apart. uh, note very important role of the azerbaijani diaspora in the russian federation as well as the largest in the south caucasus russian general, but azerbaijan which has a special role in the development of data. uh, relationship 27-28. october went very well. e. the fifteenth verona eurasian e, a forum where a large number of representatives of the political and business elite of russia took an active part, and speaking of humanitarian ties. of course , we cannot fail to mention the very, uh, successful

operation of the branches of the leading russian universities this mgu had lomonosov first moscow medical institute named after sechenov e, signing e. at the fifth summit of the heads of the caspian states, and commerce on the legal status of the caspian sea laid the foundation and determined the future architecture of interaction on the caspian sea. and we think it's worth it. here, too, extra efforts are made to ensure full ratification of e and to complete the process of ratification by all, e countries. uh, with the caspian today, of course within the framework. e our discussions also separately we discussed the post-conflict situation in our region the issue of the descent of the conflict normalization between armenia and azerbaijan the republic of azerbaijan highly

appreciates the role of the russian federation in the normalization of relations between armenia and azerbaijan from this point of view. we believe that the most important element is the full and conscientious implementation of the tripartite statements signed by the leaders of azerbaijan, the russian federation and armenia. unfortunately, we have to state that a number of e, fundamental provisions of the tripartite statement. still not being implemented by the armenian armenian side. uh, among which, of course, i would like to mention still, uh, start no , no, no, no final withdrawal of the armenian armed formations from the territory. uh, the republic of azerbaijan, which is provided for by the tripartite statement, is also mine. uh, the topic, it is very uh, very problematic with associative and uh, we have great tragic consequences of this situation, incomplete and

not an accurate representation of the picture of the fields it virtually on a weekly basis curve tragic consequences. and unfortunately, the tragic statistics says, uh, very uh. 268 people were the result of e, that means they became victims of these tragedies, of which 45 people lost their lives and out of these forty-five people. i would like to emphasize that 35 people. these are civilians, the armenian side also continues to violate the terms of the tripartite statement in terms of non-targeted use of the ploshchensky corridor from august 2022 . more than 2,700 mines were found to have been cleared production of 2021 in the republic of armenia a little more than a week, there and back another one. the territory, and without where they were decontaminated, was

represented by the team also by the russian continent, the head of the russian turkish monitoring center, as well as a number of military e-s , in conscience, which are represented in azerbaijan, this is a continuing violation of tripartite statements, the source is actually the continuation of hostilities against azerbaijan and e use of the latin corridor for the healing of the humanitarian character. what is prohibited and we are also seeing a delay in the opening of communications provided for by tripartite statements and, specifically, transport routes of transport corridors between the western borders of azerbaijan and the narkhion autonomous republic. the republic of azerbaijan has always consistently advocated the normalization of armenian-azerbaijani relations based on the principles and norms of international respect for, uh, the sovereignty and territorial

integrity of countries, we believe that the un charter is tired and the almaty declaration of 1991 is a good basis for moving forward. based on this logic, azerbaijan prepared a draft on the basis of five basic principles, and presented the agreements to the armenian side. after that, two rounds of negotiations took place. i would also like to reform that the third package of comments from the azerbaijani side has already been submitted to the armenian side and we think that it is possible to hold a third round of negotiations between armenia and azerbaijan on a draft peace treaty by the end of this year, despite positive dynamics in the negotiation process. i would also like to note that progress, uh, is quite limited on all tracks, when i say all tracks, i mean the issue of discussing a peace treaty and opening

communications, as well as the issue of delimiting the state border. i would also like to indicate that the position of azerbaijan has been repeatedly expressed to azerbaijan by us. but she also spoke out , which means she outlined her position regarding the reintegration of the armenian population. uh, the period of the former territory of the former uh conflict and uh, citizens of armenian nationality will have all the rights and guarantees that all other citizens of the republic of azerbaijan have in accordance with our constitution and international treaties. we believe that e in the legislation of azerbaijan represents for this. e, a very good basis and also believe that seven international authors should support this process, which has the goal of establishing a long-term peace of security and stability in

our e region. taking the opportunity again. wanted i would like to thank sergey viktorovich for organizing this meeting and for the very fruitful and amazing discussions that we had today . how do you assess the potential for the development of the north-south transport corridor of the strategic project for baku and moscow and the second part, at what stage is the implementation of the world payment system in azerbaijan now thank you well, the project of the international transport corridor north, south, uh, is regularly discussed at the level of presidents at the level of heads of government through transport departments. eh, and recently these discussions have revived, but, given the emergence of clear assessments. how effective this project can be not only for our countries and for iran, who

are planning to participate in it, but also for the world economy. this is a significant benefit for all carriers between asia and europe significant savings benefit a in all senses and in terms of time and financial costs is specifically a study. it's going very, very intense right now. i think, which is the very near future. and we will be able to tell about the representatives of the mass media about how e is progressing. this process, i repeat , is of interest, uh, from all parties on which its implementation depends, as for the world payment system, just like the connection of azerbaijani banks to the system for transmitting financial messages from the central bank of the russian federation, this topic is very very relevant for three banks azeri e operate on the basis of the

central bank's financial messaging system. there is interest. we see this and using e-payment system world. moreover , this will significantly promote and, uh, in general, contacts between people. but early, as well as on the interaction between business structures, of course , tourism. so i think all these issues they are under control have been in the government and relevant departments. and for my part, too. well , sergeyevich identified. he outlined the importance of the north, south project, which, it seems to me, no one doubts at the present time. it seems to me that its relevance even grew when we we are talking about e, transnational e transport transit projection. it naturally affects not only our country, it has a wider geography, and uh in this, and at the moment there is a

very active discussion between everyone interested in expanding opportunities, because in fact the corridor also exists today , but there is a general consensus of opinion that its potential is much wider. and today i will say about this corridor for the transportation of goods. it occurs, say, in multi-modal e hmm, according to the multimodal scheme, because, let's say , there is a missing section on the territory of iran, which, you know, has been discussed for many years, i think now, uh, the processes are developing more dynamically. uh, hmm big uh, the possibility that this process will be uh solved in a fairly short time frame. that will increase the load, uh, the flow at the same time, i would like to say that those are the topics that we are discussing in the framework of the post-conflict settlement. also related to the north south project, because when we talk about the opening of communication between armenia and azerbaijan, when we talk about new transport routes , the restoration of the railway between the western

borders of azerbaijan and the autonomous republic through the territory of armenia i would like to recall that this road existed back in soviet times and i would also like to recall that -e, this railway from the territory of the republic has a connection with the iranian railway through e, inhabited by pulse. and uh, with the successful promotion of this route, it can be another, say offshoot of the project. e, north south is e another confirmation of the fact that from progress and from progress on various tracks, the search for conflict regulation. not only armenia azerbaijan but also all, uh, regional countries can benefit, uh, azerbaijan aims to constructively promote this issue and within the framework of the trilateral commission, which is led by

examples, this topic is being discussed, we hope that the armenian side will show a constructive approach and finally there will be an opportunity to move the question dead center on the territory of azerbaijan i would like to say that without waiting for, say, the final agreement of azerbaijan on its territory, this project is being implemented by the railway line and infrastructure, it is being built in the twenty-third year on our territory. it will be completed before the border with the army further, as will continue, uh, the process, of course, will also depend on how constructive the position is. start showing the armenian side regarding e, payment systems and contacts between the relevant structures e our countries, from the point of view, means expanding opportunities, which means cooperation on this topic,

as already noted, this issue is under study and the relevant structures of azerbaijan and the russian federation a. so, e is working on and discussing this topic. please. hello, i have a question for you. i told you about the negotiations with armenia on the conclusion of a peace treaty recently in the media, uh, various projects were mentioned, uh, i mean , the contexts of the moscow washington projects was to contribute. i gave this topic two, the pskov project was prepared a long time ago at the beginning of this year and handed over to the parties as a desire, as confirmation of the desire of the russian federation of russia to help find a common common base a and it was generally positively received, but since then there have been

and azerbaijan’s well-known proposals of the five principles, about which now we still mentioned them here, pashinyan’s examples of these five principles. well, quite recently this autumn, just there during the trip of foreign ministers affairs of azerbaijan to armenia washington, the azerbaijani side presented another version of the possible possible. document, and after already returning from washington, uh, as i understand it, the armenian uh, hmm, representatives of ours delivered and we are still ready to assist, but uh here, of course, it is very important to decide on smooth fundamental things. and in this sense, what was agreed upon by the leaders of azerbaijan and armenia in prague on october 6, of course, has a milestone value, as it were, and they confirmed their focus on

solution of all problems on the basis of the un charter and the almaty declaration of december 1991. if that 's the way i understand it, it really is. so this is supported by the president of azerbaijan, the prime minister of armenia, then, to be honest, the decision means. a few comment on the issue we really often hear that there are different. the projects are various initiatives that can or should be used as bases, as it were, for the position of the azerbaijani side that we consider this issue as fundamental from the point of view of the normalization of the armenian-azerbaijani relations the republic of azerbaijan has a very pleasant presentation.