MOSCOW — Armenia's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that a draft peace agreement with Azerbaijan had been finalized from its side and that it was ready to discuss a date and location to sign a final deal.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have fought a series of wars since the late 1980s, when Nagorno-Karabakh, a region in Azerbaijan that had a mostly Armenian population at the time, broke away from Baku with Yerevan's support.
In September 2023, Azerbaijan retook Karabakh by force, prompting almost all of the territory's 100,000 Armenians to flee to Armenia.
Both sides have long said they want to sign a treaty to end the long-running conflict but have wrangled over the details of what it might look like for years.
"The peace agreement is ready for signing. The Republic of Armenia is ready to start consultations with the Republic of Azerbaijan on the date and place of signing the agreement," Armenia's Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Reporting by Reuters; Writing by Anastasia Teterevleva Editing by Andrew Osborn
said on Thursday that a draft peace agreement with Azerbaijan
had been finalized from its side and that it was ready to
discuss a date and location to sign a final deal.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have fought a series of wars since
the late 1980s, when Nagorno-Karabakh, a region in Azerbaijan
that had a mostly Armenian population at the time, broke away
from Baku with Yerevan's support.
In September 2023, Azerbaijan retook Karabakh by force,
prompting almost all of the territory's 100,000 Armenians to
flee to Armenia.
Both sides have long said they want to sign a treaty to end
the long-running conflict but have wrangled over the details of
what it might look like for years.
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