Tase: Brussels meeting - crucial chapter in Azerbaijan-Armenia peace dialogue

The path for a peace treaty governing inter-state relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan and assigning the foreign ministers to meet within one month to work on draft texts, is a major achievement that is testimony to Azerbaijan’s willingness for healthy neighborly relations and to ensure stability in Europe, US political scientist and expert in international relations Peter Tase told Report.

He was commenting on the meeting of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev with Head of the Council of the European Union Charles Michel and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in Brussels.

He noted that the trilateral meeting in Brussels is a crucial chapter in the peace-seeking dialogue between Azerbaijan and Armenia: “This major event hosted by Charles Michel is indeed the result of a constant diplomatic campaign that has taken place from Baku and Washington to bring Yerevan to the table and repeatedly pressuring Armenian government to provide the maps indicating land mines inside the territory of Azerbaijan (that has been occupied by Armenian armed forces for almost 30 years until November 2020).”

He said that the EC has rightfully expressed concern about humanitarian issues, including demining.

“The EU has shown genuine interest to speed up and pressure Armenia to provide to Azerbaijan authorities the maps of land mines buried inside the territory of Azerbaijan, a threat that is causing so many civilian and human losses,” Tase added.