Leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia reach no breakthrough on decades-long conflict
Leaders Armenia And Azerbaijan On Thursday, in Abu Dabi, he met for the last talks to end a almost forty -year conflict in the South Caucasus, but did not immediately reach the breakthroughs.
The two countries work for a peace agreement after Azerbaijan He reclaimed the full control of Karabakh province It was under the control of the ethnic Armenian forces supported by Armenia since the 1990s.
Although both sides accepted the statement of the potential bilateral peace agreement in March, the talks on Thursday made a little clarity of when the agreement could be concluded.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, instead of both promised to continue to work on sensitive issues border limitation.
In a joint statement published on Thursday, the two countries confirmed their commitment to bilateral negotiations again and said that the two sides would continue to “trust measures”.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have been locked in a painful conflict in the region since the beginning of the 1990s, when the Ethnic Armenian forces seized control over Karabakh Province and nearby regions.
In 2020, a six -week war resulted in the recovery of Azerbaijan’s separation region. In September 2023, the Azerbaijani forces launched a lightning to repeat the remaining parts and the Armenian officials of Karabakh surrender in negotiations Russian forces mediates. Armenia later gave Azerbaijan a few border villages.
Both sides struggled to solve a dispute on opening a land corridor to Azerbaijan’s Nakhichevan Exclave, passing through the Synic region of Armenia.
Last year, Pashinyan said that Armenia should define the Azerbaijani border quickly to avoid a new tour. hostility. Many residents of Armenia’s border regions have resisted the efforts to limit Azerbaijan as a rape of their own areas.
Last year, a series of demonstrations protested against the transfer of the villages to the control of Azerbaijan and asked for the resignation of Pashinyan.
Pashinyan responded to increasing tension by breaking the protest leaders.
The two leaders of the opposition group sacred struggle, Archbishop Mikael Ajapahyan and Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan -Senior leaders at the influential Apostolic Church of the country-after being accused of joining a alleged plan to overthrow the right, he was detained in recent weeks before the trial.
