By Felix Mild Reuters
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Tuesday stated he was able to signal a peace take care of Azerbaijan by the top of the yr, at the same time as Baku {accused} Yerevan of undermining the method of normalising their relations.
Russia’s state-run TASS information company cited Pashinyan as telling the European Parliament in Strasbourg that Armenia was prepared to finish greater than three a long time of hostilities, and to ensure the security of ethnic Azeris in Armenia.
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However in an announcement in a while, Azerbaijan’s Overseas Ministry {accused} Pashinyan of undermining the peace course of with “aggressive rhetoric”. It stated Armenia as a rustic had a repute for “blunt falsification of information and historical past”.
The 2 international locations have in current weeks said their willingness to signal a treaty to finish a long time of intermittent battle over Nagorno-Karabakh, a breakaway area that Azerbaijan recaptured final month, prompting most of its inhabitants of some 120,000 ethnic Armenians to flee to Armenia.
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Armenia describes the Karabakh Armenians’ flight as ethnic cleaning pushed by the specter of violence after a nine-month blockade of important provides, the newest chapter in a battle between Christian Armenians and Turkic Muslim Azeris that goes again greater than a century.
Azerbaijan says the Karabakh Armenian civilians had been welcome to remain and be built-in in Azerbaijani society, however left voluntarily.
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Past Karabakh, the 2 international locations’ shared border is riddled with small exclaves surrounded by the opposite facet’s land – sovereign territory that’s in impact occupied by the opposite facet – complicating a ultimate peace deal. Exchanges of fireplace throughout the frontier, typically deadly, are an everyday prevalence.
Russian President Vladimir Putin final week stated he believed a peace deal was achievable if each side confirmed goodwill, taking part in down the issue of reaching an settlement on their shared border.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Monday made his first go to to the territories retaken by Azerbaijan final month, and was filmed elevating Azerbaijan’s flag within the area’s capital and treading on the flag of Karabakh’s dissolved ethnic Armenian authority.
