The government of Azerbaijan considers the US “biased” and therefore does not want to participate in talks there aimed at normalizing relations with neighboring Armenia. The planned date would have been November 20 in Washington.
Washington is “biased” towards Baku and therefore “could lose its role as a mediator,” according to a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Thursday. Shortly before, the head of the US State Department’s European division, James O’Brien, said that after the events of September 19, “nothing will return to normal until we see progress toward peace” in relations with Azerbaijan .
What happened? As reported, on September 19, Azerbaijan’s military launched a large-scale military offensive and took full control of Nagorno-Karabakh, which is ruled by pro-Armenian separatists. Nearly all of the region’s 120,000 Armenian residents have now fled to Armenia (see video above).
The peace agreement should follow
Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev and Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan have already negotiated in several EU-mediated rounds. Both politicians said a peace deal could be signed in the coming months.
The former Soviet republics of Azerbaijan and Armenia had fought over the Nagorno-Karabakh region and gone to war over it several times since the collapse of the Soviet Union. According to international law, the area belongs to Azerbaijan.
Source: Krone
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