Trump to host Armenia, Azerbaijan leaders for peace talks: Report

Armenia and Azerbaijan’s leaders met successful the UAE past month, but nary breakthrough successful their decades-long struggle was reached.

United States President Donald Trump volition big the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan for bid talks astatine the White House, a US authoritative said.

The authoritative told the Reuters quality bureau connected Tuesday that determination is simply a anticipation a model for a bid statement could beryllium announced astatine Friday’s gathering successful Washington, DC.

The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan met successful Abu Dhabi, successful the United Arab Emirates, for bid talks past month, but nary breakthrough successful the decades-old struggle was announced.

[Al Jazeera]

The 2 South Caucasus countries person been successful struggle with each different since the precocious 1980s, erstwhile Nagorno-Karabakh broke distant from Azerbaijan with enactment from Armenia.

The region, which was claimed by some Azerbaijan and Armenia aft the autumn of the Russian Empire successful 1917, had a mostly taste Armenian colonisation astatine the time.

Azerbaijan recaptured Nagorno-Karabakh successful September 2023, prompting astir each of the territory’s 100,000 Armenians to fly to Armenia.

Armenia has accused Azerbaijan of “erasing each traces” of the beingness of taste Armenians successful the contested territory, successful a lawsuit earlier the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

The lawsuit stems from the 2020 warfare implicit Nagorno-Karabakh, which near much than 6,600 radical dead, 1 of 3 full-scale wars that the 2 countries person fought implicit the region.

The United Nations’s apical tribunal has ordered Azerbaijan to let taste Armenians who fled Nagorno-Karabakh to return. Azerbaijan says it is committed to ensuring each residents’ information and security, careless of nationalist oregon taste origin, and that it has not forced taste Armenians, who are mostly Christian, to permission the Karabakh region.

Azerbaijan, whose inhabitants are mostly Muslim, links its humanities individuality to the territory, too, and has accused the Armenians of driving retired Azeris who lived adjacent the portion successful the 1990s.

The gathering successful Abu Dhabi last month betwixt Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev came aft the 2 countries finalised a draft bid deal successful March.

The 2 leaders “agreed to proceed bilateral negotiations and confidence-building measures betwixt the 2 countries”, but nary much factual steps were outlined successful the last connection from the talks.

Ceasefire violations on the heavy militarised 1,000km (620-mile) shared Armenia-Azerbaijan borderline surged soon aft the draught woody was announced successful March, but aboriginal diminished.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies