The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan have held talks in Geneva on a future peace treaty, according to officials in Baku and Yerevan, following recent deadly clashes between the arch-foes.
Last month, at least 286 people were killed on both sides before a United States-brokered truce ended the worst clashes since the Caucasus neighbors’ 2020 war.
Baku and Yerevan fought two wars—in 2020 and in the 1990s—over the contested region of Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian-populated enclave of Azerbaijan.
Armenia’s Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan and his Azerbaijani counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov met on Sunday in Geneva to begin “drafting the text of the peace treaty,” the foreign ministry in Baku said on Monday.
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