BERLIN
\nArmenia and Azerbaijan have agreed to continue peace talks after a new push in Berlin this week to resolve their decades-long conflict, the German foreign ministry said on Friday.
\nArmenia\u2019s Ararat Mirzoyan and Azerbaijan\u2019s Jeyhun Bayramov held two days of talks in Berlin hosted by German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, who hailed their \u201ccourageous steps\u201d toward a peace agreement.
\nA German foreign ministry spokeswoman on Friday said the two countries had \u201ca great interest in continuing to clarify outstanding issues together and to meet again for this purpose.\u201d
\nThe foreign ministries of Armenia and Azerbaijan had also said in a statement on Thursday that they wished to \u201ccontinue negotiations on the open issues.\u201d
\nThe German spokeswoman hailed the agreement to pursue talks as \u201ca very good sign\u201d and said the two parties wanted to work \u201cstep by step\u201d toward a peace agreement.
\nArmenia and Azerbaijan fought two wars, in the 1990s and in 2020, before Azerbaijani forces last September retook control of the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh in a lightning offensive that ended three decades of Armenian separatist rule over the enclave.
\nTensions have remained high since the Azerbaijani operation that triggered the exodus to Armenia of most of the enclave\u2019s entire ethnic-Armenian population of more than 100,000 people.
\nThe dialogue in Berlin built on a surprise direct meeting between the two nations\u2019 leaders on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference last month.
\nUnder German Chancellor Olaf Scholz\u2019s mediation, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev agreed in Munich to push on with peace negotiations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
BERLIN Armenia and Azerbaijan have agreed to continue peace talks after a new push in Berlin this week to resolve their decades-long conflict, the German foreign ministry said on Friday. Armenia\u2019s Ararat Mirzoyan and Azerbaijan\u2019s Jeyhun Bayramov held two days of talks in Berlin hosted by German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, who hailed their \u201ccourageous […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-390908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n