Armenia and Azerbaijan have agreed to carry on with peace talks following a move by Germany this week to persuade the two countries to continue negotiations, the German foreign ministry said on Friday.
Armenia’s Foreign Minister, Ararat Mirzoyan, and his Azerbaijani counterpart, Jeyhun Bayramov, held a two-day meeting hosted by Germany’s Foreign Minister, Annalena Baerbock, who praised their “courageous steps” to come to a peace agreement.
The foreign ministries of both Armenia and Azerbaijan have stated they seek to continue negotiations on “open issues.”
Azerbaijani forces regained control of the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh in 2020 and the two countries fought two wars in the 1990s over the region.
Most of Karabakh’s ethnic Armenian population of 100,000 have fled the enclave in the wake of Azerbaijan’s occupation.
Talks in Germany came after a surprise dialogue between Armenia and Azerbaijan’s leaders at the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference last month.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenia’s Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, came to an agreement through the mediation of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to carry on with peace negotiations.
