The trilateral meeting of presidents of Russia and Azerbaijan and prime-minister of Armenia – Vladimir Putin, Ilham Aliyev and Nikola Pashinyan, held in Moscow on November 10, 2020, at which a statement on the cessation of hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh was adopted, indicates that, despite a radical change in the status-quo in South Caucasus, which happened in November last year, the settlement of this conflict continues to be an urgent problem not only for its direct participants, but for external players as well.