German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock will travel to Armenia on Friday, about a month and a half after the surrender of Armenian forces to Azerbaijan after a brief conflict over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

She is due to meet Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan, a Foreign Office spokesman said.

On Saturday Baerbock plans to meet Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov in Baku.

Some 100,000 ethnic Armenians fled the region as a result of the conflict. Baerbock will visit a refugee centre in Armenia for refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh, the spokesman said.

Baerbock also plans to visit the civilian EU Mission in Armenia (EUMA), which monitors the security situation along the Armenian side of the border.

Armenian forces surrendered to Azerbaijan on September 19. The ex-Soviet republics in the South Caucasus have long been enemies, and the Nagorno-Karabakh region has been contested for decades.

"The goal is a negotiated, comprehensive peace settlement so that Armenians and Azerbaijanis can live in peace and safety within their state borders," the spokesman said.

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