Azerbaijan and Armenia have accepted a proposal for a new meeting in Russia on the peace treaty, the dates will be announced by Moscow after the final agreement. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told a briefing on Wednesday.
"Our efforts to fully assist Azerbaijan and Armenia in preparing a peace treaty between these countries are not slowing down. The partners have accepted a proposal to hold the next round of bilateral talks on our territory. We will inform about the dates of specific events when it is all finally agreed upon," the diplomat said at a briefing on Wednesday.
Baku and Yerevan dispute ownership of Nagorno-Karabakh since February 1988, when it announced about its secession from the Azerbaijani SSR. The situation in the region escalated on September 27, 2020, and active battles began. Russian President Vladimir Putin, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan signed a joint statement on the full cessation of hostilities in Karabakh on November 9, 2020. According to the document, the Azerbaijani and Armenian sides stopped at the occupied positions, a number of areas came under Baku's control, and Russian peacekeepers were deployed along the line of contact and in the Lachin corridor. Subsequently, the leaders of the three countries adopted several other joint statements on the situation in the region. Last year, Azerbaijan and Armenia began discussing a peace treaty.
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Based on materials from TASS