Al Jazeera :
Leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan have announced a meeting next week for European Union-mediated talks in Brussels, amid renewed tensions over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
The Caucasus neighbours, which fought a war in 2020 over Azerbaijan’s Armenian-populated enclave, recently expressed readiness to launch negotiations on a “comprehensive peace treaty”, following a flare-up in Nagorno-Karabakh this month.
“I plan to meet on April 6 in Brussels with the European Council President Charles Michel and Azerbaijani President [Ilham Aliyev],” Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan told a cabinet meeting on Thursday.
He added that he hoped “to agree on all the questions related to the start of peace talks” with Baku.
“Armenia once again declares that it is ready to sign a peace agreement with Azerbaijan and to start negotiations without delay,” Pashinyan said. Aliyev said Azerbaijan was ready for peace talks .
Aliyev said the two countries “must advance towards peace and to sign, as soon as possible, a peace agreement”. “Azerbaijan has tabled basic principles for the agreement,” he told a news conference.
