Reuters: Azerbaijan and Armenia could conclude a peace deal at the European Political Community summit on June 1
Azerbaijan and Armenia could sign a peace agreement on the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict at the European Political Community summit in Moldova on 1 June. A statement to this effect was made by Baku's envoy to France, Leyla Abdullayeva, quoted by Reuters.
The source notes that Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev are due to hold high-level talks with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, diplomatic sources said. The two leaders recently met in Russia.
"On 1 June in Chisinau, we hope that a peace treaty can finally be signed," Leyla Abdullayeva told a small group of reporters in Paris.
"This is a historic moment and an impulse that cannot be missed," she said.
Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian-populated enclave inside Azerbaijan, has been a source of conflict since the years before the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
In 2020, Azerbaijan took control of areas that had been controlled by ethnic Armenians in and around the mountain enclave, and has since periodically restricted access to the only road linking Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia.
Recently, progress has been made in finding solutions based on mutual recognition of each other's territorial integrity.
The European Union and the United States have made several attempts to bring the parties together.
