Armenia and Azerbaijan to paintings against peace deal – BBC Information

7 December 2023Updated 55 mins agoImage supply, Getty ImagesImage caption, The 2 neighbours had been thinking about a decades-long struggle over Nagorno-KarabakhArmenia and Azerbaijan say they are going to transfer against normalising members of the family, and can alternate prisoners captured all through contemporary preventing in Nagorno-Karabakh. The 2 neighbours had been thinking about a decades-long struggle over the disputed territory.In a joint observation launched on Thursday night time, the 2 international locations stated they noticed a “historic probability” for “long-awaited peace”.Each international locations stated they was hoping to signal a peace treaty by means of the tip of the yr.Azerbaijan’s lightning army offensive in September introduced an finish to a few a long time of ethnic Armenian rule within the Nagorno-Karabakh area, recognised across the world as Azerbaijani territory.Maximum of its 120,000 ethnic Armenians fled to neighbouring Armenia.The 2 international locations introduced on Thursday that they’d paintings against signing a complete peace treaty according to mutual recognize for each and every others’ territorial integrity.Baku is freeing 32 Armenian army servicemen and Yerevan is freeing two army servicemen, as a “gesture of goodwill”.Ecu Council President Charles Michel welcomed the observation as a “primary leap forward in Armenia-Azerbaijan members of the family”. America praised “an significance confidence-building measure”.Different strikes come with Armenia’s toughen of Azerbaijan’s bid to host the COP29 local weather summit by means of retreating its personal candidacy. Azerbaijan has agreed to toughen Armenia’s candidacy of a regional workforce related to the local weather talks.The 2 international locations also referred to as at the global neighborhood to toughen their efforts.The settlement was once reached all through talks between the workplace of Armenia’s Top Minister Nikol Pashinyan and the management of the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev.The 2 leaders have met on a number of events for normalisation talks mediated by means of the EU, the United States and Russia. Talks had stalled in contemporary months after Azerbaijan refused to take part in talks in the United States and Spain, claiming bias at the a part of Western international locations. The 2 international locations resumed talks once more on the finish of October in Iran.

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