Meeting of Azerbaijani, Armenian FMs postponed

The next round of negotiations between the Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers has been postponed.

"At the request of the Azerbaijani side, the next round of discussions planned in Washington is postponed," Caliber.Az reports with reference to the press service of the Armenian Foreign Ministry.

The next round of talks between Azerbaijani and Armenian Foreign Ministers Jeyhun Bayramov and Ararat Mirzoyan was planned on June 12.

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.