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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has dismissed speculation that Turkey could build a military base in Azerbaijan as "rumors."

The Russian government said Friday that the country is closely monitoring developments around a potential Turkish military base in Azerbaijan, "a move that could require Russia to take steps to ensure its own security and interests."

The full text of the Shusha Declaration on Allied Relations, which was signed June 15 by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the city of Shusha, has been published.

Moscow is closely monitoring developments around a potential Turkish military base in Azerbaijan, a move that could require Russia to take steps to ensure its own security and interests, the Kremlin said on Friday.

The Shusha Declaration signed this week between Turkey and Azerbaijan will strengthen unity in the Turkic world, the head of the International Turkic Academy said on Thursday.

Despite some improvements in the work of municipalities, major concerns remain about a number of factors impairing the development of self-government in Azerbaijan, such as a lack of real powers of municipalities, of a status of state institutions and of own financial resources, says the monitoring report of the Council of Europe’s Congress of Local and Regional Authorities which also provides a number of urgent recommendations to the authorities.

The corresponding consultations on settling the border dispute will continue, Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan plans contacts with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, Erdogan told journalists Thursday after returning from Azerbaijan.

Saleh Doostaliyev, an Iran expert with the Institute of Oriental Studies of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, made the remarks in an exclusive interview with IRNA.

Armenians vote Sunday (20 June) in snap parliamentary elections called by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to end a political crisis ignited by his country’s humiliating military defeat to Azerbaijan last year.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Local Government, Elections, Rural Development, Parliamentary Affairs and Human Rights, Akbar Ayub Khan has called for increasing exchange programmes with Azerbaijan.

Ilham Aliev associates multiple mine explosion casualties among civilians and military personnel after the end of the war in Nagorno-Karabakh with the fact that Baku did not have maps of minefields.

According to TASS, Erdogan made the remarks on Tuesday during a press conference with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in the city of Shusha in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has travelled to the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region as part of a trip reaffirming his nation's political support to Azerbaijan.

Peace and stability in the Caucasus will benefit the entire world, not just countries of the region, Turkey’s president said on Tuesday.

All the regional countries, including Armenia, and the entire world will benefit from the peace and tranquility in the Caucasus, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said in an address to the national parliament of Azerbaijan.

The Delegation of the European Union to Azerbaijan has announced the winners of the press contest on EU-Azerbaijan cooperation, for Azerbaijani print, TV/radio and web media content.

Pledging support for the revival and reconstruction of Azerbaijan's Nagorno-Karabakh, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called on regional countries to join efforts of cooperation for peace and stability.

According to the Turkish leader, "the end of hostilities in Karabakh opened up wide opportunities for intergovernmental cooperation in the region".