MOSCOW, April 12. /TASS/. Azerbaijan and Armenia have agreed to hold another round of peace treaty talks in Russia, with the exact dates to be announced later, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday.
"I want to say that we are not letting up in our efforts to provide comprehensive assistance to Azerbaijan and Armenia to prepare a peace treaty between the countries. The partners have accepted a proposal to hold another round of bilateral talks on our territory. We will let you know the dates of the specific events when all that is completely agreed upon," she said at a news conference.
Baku and Yerevan have been disputing Nagorno-Karabakh since February 1988, when it announced its secession from the Azerbaijani SSR. The situation in the region escalated on September 27, 2020, as intense fighting broke out. On November 9, 2020, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan signed a joint statement on the complete cessation of hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh. According to the document, the Azerbaijani and Armenian sides stopped at their positions, some areas went over to Baku, and Russian peacekeepers were deployed along the engagement line and in the Lachin corridor. Subsequently, the leaders of the three countries adopted several more joint statements on the situation in the region. Last year, Azerbaijan and Armenia began discussing a peace treaty.