Armenia said Friday that talks with Azerbaijan over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region were “constructive” but made no mention of a potential breakthrough in the long-running conflict.
Armenian President Serge Sarkisian and his Azerbaijani counterpart “lham Aliyev met late Thursday in the Moldovan capital of Chisinau on the sidelines of a summit of
“During the three-hour meeting, both sides demonstrated constructive attitudes for continuing negotiations on the conflict’s peaceful resolution,” the statement said.
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“This was the fifth meeting between the two presidents in the last 10 months and confirmed the positive dynamic of their negotiations,” the group said in a statement from Chisinau.
“The talks were constructive and serious, including an
Backed by Yerevan, ethnic-Armenian separatists seized control of Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding districts from Azerbaijan in the early 1990s, sparking a war that claimed an estimated 30,000 lives.
Thursday’s meeting came amid a thaw in relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan’s close ally Turkey. The two countries are expected to sign a landmark deal on Saturday to establish diplomatic relations and open their border after decades of hostility.
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