Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced today during a speech at an event in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi that his country will sign a peace agreement with Azerbaijan “next month” that will include the “establishment of diplomatic relations“, and expressed confidence in a forthcoming reopening of the border with Turkey. The announcement follows difficult peace talks, including a meeting in Tehran on Monday attended by representatives of Russia and Turkey.
After Azerbaijan’s military victory in the brief Karabakh war of 2020, the self-proclaimed Armenian separatist republic of Artsakh announced at the end of last September its dissolution and integration into Azerbaijan, following a brief military operation launched days earlier by the Azeri army, which prompted a mass exodus of thousands of Armenians from the region to neighbouring Armenia for fear of reprisals.
Negotiations between Yerevan and Baku for a final peace deal have also been supported by the EU, in particular France and Germany, but both countries have rejected further involvement of Turkey, Azerbaijan’s main ally in the South Caucasus region. During this week’s meeting in Tehran, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov claimed that the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict “has been practically resolved” as “both sides agree that Karabakh belongs to Azerbaijan, which was the main issue of dispute”.
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Pablo Gómez is a specialist in Turkey and has been editor-in-chief of Hispanatolia since 2011. He has been analysing current affairs and geopolitics in Turkey and the surrounding region since 2006.
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