The countries that have been fighting over the Nagorno-Karabakh region for decades confirmed their intention to normalize relations and sign a peace agreement.
Azerbaijan and Armenia have agreed to exchange prisoners of war and take steps to normalize their relations. The countries announced this in a joint statement on Thursday.
Azerbaijan releases 32 Armenian prisoners of war, and Armenia releases two Azerbaijani soldiers.
Maat have said that a peace agreement could be signed by the end of the year. However, the peace negotiations brokered separately by the EU, the United States and Russia have not made much progress.
On Thursday, the parties said, among other things, that they would take concrete steps to build trust and confirmed their intention to normalize relations and sign a peace agreement.
According to the Reuters news agency, Armenia also said on Thursday that it does not intend to block Azerbaijan’s application to organize the UN COP29 climate meeting next year. The venue for next year’s meeting has been searched for a long time.
To the contract reached the Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pašinjanin and the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev in negotiations between
According to the Armenian Foreign Ministry, Armenia had responded affirmatively to the US Secretary of State Antony Blinkenin to the offer, a meeting of the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan will be organized in Washington.
Maat have been fighting for decades over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, which was retaken by Azerbaijan in a blitzkrieg in September. More than 100,000 people fled to Armenia as a result of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Azerbaijan and Armenia have fought two wars related to territorial disputes, in the 1990s and in 2020. Hundreds of thousands of people have died in the clashes.