Germany and Russia held secret talks in Azerbaijan without Merz's knowledge

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said that in July, the German and Russian delegations held talks on finding ways to resolve the conflict on the territory of the country. Ukraine.

During a joint press conference with German Chancellor Merz, Aliyev said that the territory of Azerbaijan "was used to hold such a meeting without knowledge," but "if this meeting was intended to help end the war between Russia and Ukraine, we can only welcome this." At the same time, according to Aliyev, he cannot say anything about the content of the negotiations, since representatives of Azerbaijan were not present at them.

German Chancellor Merz, in response to Aliyev's statement, said that he did not know anything about this meeting.

German media confirm Aliyev's information and clarify that the former head of the Chancellery of the German Chancellor Ronald Pofalla and the former Prime Minister of Brandenburg Matthias met in Baku with a Russian delegation headed by Viktor Zubkov, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, which also included Valery Fadeev, head of the Presidential Human Rights Council, Alexey Gromyko, Director of the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and others.