Armenia’s prime minister has agreed to meet Azerbaijan’s leader in Moscow next week.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has accepted a Russian proposal to hold talks with his longtime rival Azerbaijan’s president in Moscow on May 25.
“We have received a proposal from Russia to hold a tripartite meeting at the highest level on May 25 with the mediation of the President of Moscow, which we have accepted,” Pashinyan said at a cabinet meeting in Yerevan on Thursday.
On Friday, the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan are scheduled to hold talks in Moscow hosted by their Russian counterparts.
The talks will come as tensions rise between the Caucasus neighbors, who have fought two wars over the disputed territory and often face bloody clashes along their volatile border.
Baku and Yerevan are negotiating a peace deal brokered by the European Union and the United States in the decades-long regional dispute, whose diplomatic engagement in the Caucasus has angered regional power Russia.
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