The Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinián, and the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliev, will meet on October 5 in Grenada, as reported today by the Security Council of Armenia.
The leaders of France and Germany, as well as the president of the European Council, Charles Michel, will also participate in this meeting, whose objective is to address the signing of a peace treaty between both countries.
The secretary of the Security Council of Armenia, Armén Grigorián, will travel to Brussels this Tuesday to prepare for the meeting, the official statement states. Grigorian will hold consultations in the Belgian capital with the main advisor to the Azerbaijani Presidency, Hikmet Gadzhiev.
Pashinián recently assured that in principle the peace treaty will not be signed in the Spanish city, although it is expected that positions will come closer. However, on Sunday, during a speech to the nation, he expressed his willingness to establish de jure the agreement with Baku as soon as possible to delimit the border between both countries and thus avoid future conflicts.
Aliev himself assured this week that the attitude shown by Yerevan during the Azerbaijani military operation in the Nagorno-Karabakh region paves the way for the signing of the peace treaty. He was referring to Armenia’s failure to militarily intercede on behalf of the Karabakhs, which has sparked anti-government protests against Pashinyan.
The Grenada meeting will take place after the capitulation this week of the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, which agreed to disband its military forces following defeat by the Azerbaijanis.
The European Union has called on Baku to respect the rights of the Armenian inhabitants of Karabakh, something that Alíev did this week.
However, the Karabakh authorities already announced on Sunday the beginning of the evacuation of those who want to leave the territory for Armenia.
The Karabakh conflict, a region that will inevitably become part of Azerbaijan, has pitted Armenians and Azerbaijanis since 1988, when the Soviet Union still existed.
