BAKU, February 17. /TASS/. Azerbaijan remains committed to the peace process in relations with Armenia, the country's President Ilham Aliyev said at talks with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Munich.

"Azerbaijan remains committed to the peace process. The conclusion of a peace treaty in the near future meets the country's national interests," Aliyev is quoted as saying by the government-run news agency Azertag.

In his conversation with Blinken, Aliyev noted that peace in the region "de facto has already been established" and stressed that Azerbaijani-US relations should develop independently of the process of normalization of relations between Baku and Yerevan.