Azerbaijani International Minister Jeyhun Bayramov (L) seems on throughout a gathering with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (R) and Armenian International Minister Ararat Mirzoyan on the sidelines of the NATO Summit on the Walter E. Washington Conference Middle in Washington, DC, July 10, 2024. | Picture credit score: AFP
The overseas ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan will meet in Washington on July 10 for a brand new spherical of US-brokered talks, Yerevan and Washington introduced, because the arch-enemy neighbours negotiate a peace deal.
The Caucasus rivals fought two wars — within the Nineteen Nineties and in 2020 — over management of Azerbaijan’s breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh area, which was predominantly populated by ethnic Armenians.
Final fall, Baku recaptured the mountain enclave in a one-day offensive that prompted the exodus of its whole Armenian inhabitants — greater than 100,000 folks.
Years of internationally brokered peace talks between Baku and Yerevan have failed to supply any breakthrough, however leaders of each nations just lately stated a complete peace deal is inside attain.
“A trilateral assembly between Armenian International Minister Ararat Mirzoyan, Azerbaijani International Minister Jeyhun Bayramov and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken might be held on July 10,” Armenian International Ministry spokeswoman Ani Badalyan stated.
The assembly will happen on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Washington, he added.
The assembly was scheduled on Blinken’s official agenda for Wednesday at 10:15 a.m. (1415 GMT), in keeping with the U.S. State Division web site.
State Division spokesman Matthew Miller advised reporters Tuesday that america continues to “work towards a diplomatic answer” to the Armenian-Azerbaijani battle, however declined to offer additional particulars concerning the deliberate talks.
Mr Blinken has led repeated talks between the nations in hopes of avoiding additional battle.
Final week, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated his nation “wants a brand new structure” as a result of the present one “doesn’t replicate residents’ views on relations with neighboring nations.”
The assertion got here in response to Baku’s demand that Yerevan take away from its structure a reference to the nation’s 1991 declaration of independence from the Soviet Union, which proclaims the unification of Armenia with Karabakh as a nationwide purpose.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has stated that reaching a peace take care of Armenia is inconceivable till Armenia removes territorial claims to Karabakh from its structure.
In Could, Armenia returned to Azerbaijan 4 border villages it had seized many years earlier; Pashinyan stated the transfer was a part of his efforts to safe peace with Azerbaijan.
Final month, Mr Pashinyan stated Yerevan was able to signal a peace take care of Baku “inside a month”.
Mr Aliyev stated final week that the textual content of the settlement may very well be prepared inside a number of months.
