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Peace deal with neighbouring Azerbaijan possible by end of 2023 suggests senior Armenian official

FIRST POST
June 5 2023

According to Russia’s TASS news agency, a senior Armenian official suggested on Sunday that a peace deal with neighbouring Azerbaijan might be concluded by the end of 2023, putting an end to a decades-long war.

Moscow, Washington, and the European Union are all working individually to aid Azerbaijan and Armenia, who have fought two wars in the previous 30 years over the Nagorno-Karabakh territory.

According to TASS, Armen Grigoryan, secretary of Armenia’s Security Council, said on national television that the conversations were intense.

“If we can maintain this intensity and there is strong support from the international community to achieve progress, then there is a chance to have a peace treaty by the end of the year,” he said.

Azerbaijan took control of regions controlled by ethnic Armenians in and around Nagorno-Karabakh in 2020. The enclave is internationally accepted as a part of Azerbaijan, however, it is mostly populated by ethnic Armenians.

Both sides constantly accuse the other of violating a 2020 ceasefire agreement.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS