Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev will meet in Brussels on August 31 and European Council President Charles Michel will participate in the meeting.
On 9/11/2020, the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan signed a ceasefire declaration brokered by Russia.
In mid-May this year, Armenia and Azerbaijan announced that they had set up a border delimitation commission, which was seen as a step towards an early end to the Nagorny-Karabakh region dispute.
The Armenian government announced that the leaders of the country and Azerbaijan had agreed to meet in Brussels later this month to conduct negotiations brokered by the European Union (EU).
Speaking to the news agency, the Armenian government’s press service said: “Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev will meet in Brussels on August 31.” European Council President Charles Michel will participate in the meeting.
Relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan have remained tense over the sovereignty dispute over the Nagorny-Karabakh region.
The area is located deep in the southwestern territory of Azerbaijan, but is populated by a majority of ethnic Armenians who want to incorporate the region into Armenia.
The peak of tensions was a conflict that lasted from February 1988 to May 1994, killing about 30,000 people. By the end of September 2020, the conflict re-erupted in the area and lasted 44 days, killing at least 6,500 people.
