Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan to meet in Geneva
After the recent border disputes, the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan met in Geneva to discuss peace talks.
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the essentials in brief
- For years, Armenia and Azerbaijan have been at war over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
- Conflicts in the region flared up again in August.
- Now the foreign ministers of the countries met in Geneva.
The chief diplomats of Armenia and Azerbaijan met in Geneva on Sunday to discuss peace talks. The background to this was the recent border conflicts, which endangered the beginning normalization process between the two countries.
The meeting between Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Yeyhun Bayramov and his Armenian counterpart Ararat Mirozyan began shortly after 7 p.m. in a Geneva hotel, not far from the United Nations headquarters.
The start of the meeting was announced by the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a tweet. In the published photos, the two delegations can be seen sitting opposite each other in a room with the curtains closed.
Conflicts flared up again
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pachinian said on Friday that his foreign minister and his Azerbaijani counterpart should meet in Geneva “to begin concrete talks on the text of a peace agreement.” The two foreign ministers met in New York on September 20 during talks mediated by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
The ex-Soviet republics have been at war with each other over the Nagorno-Karabakh region for centuries. Conflicts flared up again in early August. At least 286 people were killed on both sides in a month before a US-brokered ceasefire ended the worst clashes between the Caucasus neighbors since the 2020 war.
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