Armenia's PM Nikol Pashinyan delivers a video address to the nation in Yerevan on September 24. (Image: AFP)

Armenian PM, Azerbaijan Prez to Meet in Spain Next Month, Talks to Include Macron & Scholz

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Armenia’s PM Nikol Pashinyan delivers a video address to the nation in Yerevan on September 24. (Image: AFP)

France, Germany and the EU have been key players in attempts to resolve the decades-long conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, which is an ethnically Armenian region and internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev will hold a pre-arranged meeting in Spain next month despite Baku’s lightning offensive against Armenian separatists in Nagorno-Karabakh, Yerevan said on Sunday.

The talks on October 5 in Grenada will include French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, and European Council chief Charles Michel, the Armenian security council said in a statement, adding that officials will meet to prepare the talks next week.

France, Germany and the European Union have been key players in attempts to resolve the decades-long conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. The ethnically Armenian region is internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan, but has been run by a separatist administration for three decades.

The rebels agreed to disarm under the terms of a ceasefire reached on Wednesday.

Pashinyan and Aliyev last met in July in Brussels.

(This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a syndicated news agency feed – AFP)

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