MFA spokesman: Meeting of Azerbaijani, Armenian FMs to be held in near future

Work is underway to hold a meeting of Azerbaijani and Armenian foreign ministers, the head of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry's Press Service Department Ayhan Hajizade told APA.

He noted that the meeting is expected in the near future. According to him, there is a practice of announcing the exact dates of the meeting by the coordinating country.

To recap, the two ministers last met on June 1 in Chisinau in parallel with the five-party informal meeting between Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Armenian President Nikol Pashinyan, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, and EU Council President Charles Michel on the margins of the European Political Community (EPC).

On May 19, the parties met in Moscow. After the meeting of the two ministers, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Armenia and Azerbaijan are close to agreeing an end to a blockade of transport links but more work is needed to seal a peace deal between the two countries.

Prior to that, the Azerbaijani and Armenian foreign ministers held four-day peace talks facilitated by US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken in Washington on May 1-4.