Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Wednesday will meet at a summit in Brussels for discussion steps In the wake of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict amid protests against the talks in The Armenian capital, Yerevan.
During their talks – mediated by European Council President Charles Michel – Aliyev and Pashinyan are expected to discuss start of Negotiation on A comprehensive peace treaty.
Their meeting comes after an explosion-up in Nagorno-Karabakh on 25 March saw renewed tensions between Yerevan and Baku.
eve of At the summit, several thousand opposition supporters rallied Tuesday in Yerevan to denounce government dealing of Regional Dispute with The archenemy of Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh region.
It has long been disputed between the Caucasus’ neighbors, Nagorno-Karabakh, internationally recognized as part of of Azerbaijan was in the center of All out war in 2020 who claimed more More than 6500 people before it ends with Russian-mediated haltfire an agreement.
The agreement saw Azerbaijan recover vast areas of Its lands occupied by the Armenians in not seen in Armenia as a national Humiliation stirred weeks of Bloc against government protests.
Demonstrators wave flags at Freedom Square in the center of the capital on Tuesday evening, with Lots of shouting against government slogans.
Then they walked into downtown Yerevan, vowing to block traffic in the streets later in Evening.
One of Demonstrators 58-year-old naval tailor Harutyunyan said: “We do not expect anything positive from tomorrow’s meeting” between Pashinyan and Aliyev.
On the other hand sidecalled Yerevan recently on Baku start Peace talks “without delay”. Baku agreed, saying she did already to put forward Such a proposal a year since.
Baku schedule in mid March set of framework suggestions for A peace agreement that includes mutual recognition by both parties of land unit.
Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan sparked controversy in home When he said – hung on Azerbaijani proposal – that for Yerevan “The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is not regional issuebut it’s a matter of rights” of Armenian local ethnicity population.
