Armenia and Azerbaijan to Maintain Peace Settlement Talks in Washington on Sunday

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Armenia and Azerbaijan will maintain a brand new spherical of talks in Washington on Sunday to attempt to normalise relations, the spokesperson of Armenia’s Overseas Ministry mentioned on Saturday.

Tensions have been rising once more between the 2 international locations over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh area, the place Russian peacekeepers have been deployed in 2020 to finish a battle, the second that Armenia and Azerbaijan have fought over the enclave because the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.

The mountain area is internationally recognised as a part of Azerbaijan however populated primarily by ethnic Armenians.

“From April 30 Minister of Overseas Affairs of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan shall be in Washington DC on a working go to. The following spherical of discussions on the settlement on normalisation of relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan is scheduled,” the spokesperson, Ani Badalyan, mentioned on her official Fb web page.

There was no rapid affirmation of the assembly by Azerbaijan.

Regardless of years of tried mediation between them, Armenia and Azerbaijan have but to succeed in a peace settlement that may settle excellent points such because the demarcation of borders and return of prisoners.

Azerbaijan arrange a brand new checkpoint final Sunday on the highway to Karabakh, the Lachin hall, in a transfer that Armenia that referred to as a gross violation of a 2020 ceasefire.

(Reporting by Reuters; Modifying by Alexandra Hudson)

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