President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan held a meeting this Thursday on the sidelines of the second summit of the European Political Community in Moldova and with the mediation of European leaders.
The meeting was also attended by French President Emmanuel Macron; the Chancellor of Germany, Olaf Scholz; and the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, who classified the meeting as a “very good meeting” with a view to reducing positions.
According to Michel, the parties have addressed issues of “connectivity, security, rights, border delimitation and peace treaty”, with the appointment serving as “preparation” for the next meeting on 21 July in Brussels. .
For its part, the French Presidency has commented that Aliyev and Pashinyan have promised to move forward in the delineation of borders and “affirmed mutual respect for the territorial integrity” of the two countries.
Meanwhile, Macron, Scholz and Michel have urged Armenia and Azerbaijan to honor their commitments, particularly in the context of the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, to release prisoners of war “as soon as possible”.
The President of the European Council has invited the other four leaders present at the meeting to participate in the next summit of the European Political Community to be held in the city of Granada.
Michel himself had already pointed out at the beginning of the week that it was necessary for Aliyev and Pashinyan to abandon “maximalist positions” before this Thursday’s meeting, and called talks between Azeri officials and the Armenians of Nagorno Karabakh “vital”.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have been involved in various conflicts in recent years over control of Nagorno-Karabagh, a region with a majority Armenian population that has been at the center of conflict since Azerbaijan decided in 1988 to secede from the region, which is part of . the Soviet Union.
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