The European Union will shoot a “mercenary EU charge” to Armenia to help delineate the borders with Azerbaijan, stakeholders have blazoned after a meeting in Prague.
“The end of this charge is to make confidence and, through its reports, to contribute to the border commissions,” said a common statement beforehand on Friday issued after addresses between Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, the French President Emmanuel Macron and European Council President Charles Michel.
The officers met on the sidelines of the first European Political Community peak at Prague Castle.
Following their meeting, Azerbaijan’s Aliyev told journalists from his country that the peace process with Armenia “has now been accelerated.”
Aliyev said that important issues were on the meeting’s docket, saying “I suppose this meeting will be important in terms of reaching a peace agreement.”
“Engagements are still ongoing. We agreed to meet again after regale,” he added.
Aliyev also said that the foreign ministers of the two countries would meet “soon.”
“We suggested that the working groups of the two countries meet and work on the medication of the peace agreement textbook for many days. similar is our intention,” he said.
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Peace Sweats amid tense ties
These reflections follow former connections for the inauguration of the peace process between Azerbaijan and Armenia, with Aliyev and Pashinyan having met EU Council head Michel four times before in Brussels.
Relations between the former Soviet democracy have been tense since 1991 when the Armenian service enthralled Nagorno-Karabakh, a home internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan.
Baku liberated several metropolises, townlets, and agreements from Armenian occupation during 44-day clashes in the 2020 fall, which ended after a Moscow- brokered armistice.
The peace agreement is celebrated as a triumph in Azerbaijan.
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Source: AFP