A peace agreement was discussed over the weekend (1-2/10) by the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan after the recent ones bloody conflicts between the two countriesas announced by Yerevan and Baku on Monday (3/10).
In September at least 289 people were killed in these clashes. A US-brokered truce ended the worst fighting between the two Caucasus neighbors since the 2020 war.
THE Armeniaa Russian ally, and Azerbaijan, which is backed by Turkey, have clashed twice in the past three decades over control of Nagorno-Karabakh, an enclave whose population is majority Armenian but which was part of Azerbaijan.
Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan, as reported by the Athens News Agency citing AFP, met with his Azeri counterpart Jeyhun Bairamov yesterday Sunday night in Geneva to “work out the text of the peace agreement”, according to Baku.
These discussions are a continuation of the meeting between Azeri President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on August 31 in Brussels, with the mediation of the EU.
Azerbaijan demanded “the complete withdrawal of the armed units of Armenia from its territories” and “the opening of transport and communication lines”, according to a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“The sides exchanged ideas on the peace agreement, which will guarantee the rights and security of Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh“, pointed out the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia for its part.
He also reiterated his demand for the “withdrawal” of Azeri troops “from the sovereign territory of Armenia”, the release of prisoners of war and the creation of “international mechanisms to control the border situation”.
The two ministers met for the first time on September 20 in New York.
The fighting that broke out in September was the fiercest since the 2020 war between the two countries over control of the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave, when more than 6,500 people were killed. The conflict ended with Yerevan being forced to cede territory to Baku.
Armenia and Azerbaijan were also engaged in armed conflict in the 1990s, also over Nagorno-Karabakh. That war had over 30,000 dead.
Source: News Beast
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