Azerbaijan says ready for peace talks with Armenia

BAKU, 30 March 2022, (TON): Azerbaijan said “it was ready for peace talks with Armenia, after Yerevan urged Baku to negotiate a comprehensive peace treaty amid new tensions over Nagorno-Karabakh.”

The foreign ministry in Baku said in a statement “if Armenia is serious about a peace agreement, then concrete steps have to be made. We repeat that Azerbaijan is ready for this.”

The ministry pointed out that Azerbaijan had proposed that the two countries hold peace talks a year ago.

In 2020, Armenia and Azerbaijan fought a war over the long-contested enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh which claimed more than 6,500 lives.

A cease-fire deal brokered by Russian President Vladimir Putin saw Armenia cede swathes of territory to Azerbaijan, and Moscow deploy a peacekeeping contingent to the mountainous region.

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