BRUSSELS, 08 April 2022, (TON): Armenia and Azerbaijan are preparing for peace talks, their officials said “after a recent flare-up in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev met in Brussels for rare talks mediated by the European Council President Charles Michel.”

Foreign ministry in Yerevan said in a statement “meeting came after a flare-up in Nagorno-Karabakh on March 25 that allegedly saw Azerbaijan capture a strategic village in the area under the Russian peacekeepers’ responsibility, killing three Armenian separatist troops.”

It stated that during the meeting, the two leaders “ordered foreign ministers to begin preparatory work for peace talks between the two countries.

The ministry said “an agreement was reached during the meeting to set up a bilateral commission on the issues of delimitation of the Armenian-Azerbaijan border, which will be in charge of ensuring security and stability along the frontier.”

It added “the future peace treaty would be based “on the basic principles proposed earlier by Azerbaijan.”

The European Union said Michel “noted both President Aliyev’s and Prime Minister Pashinyan’s stated desire to move rapidly towards a peace agreement between their countries.