Azerbaijani media reports that OSCE Minsk Group’s Russian Co-Chair Igor Popov, while being in NKR, announced that “the opening of the airport in Stepanakert in this situation may cause tension between the parties, and at the same time, these issues should be resolved through diplomacy, based on past experience.
The Stepanakert airport was built in the Soviet era and due to the Karabakh war, in the early 1990s, the usage of it was stopped.