German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on November 3 called on Armenia and Azerbaijan to resume peace talks mediated by the international community.
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| German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (left) speaks during her visit to Armenia on November 3. (Source: 1lurer.am) |
The call comes weeks after Baku retook the Nagorno-Karabakh region from ethnic Armenian separatists.
Speaking during a visit to Armenia, the German Foreign Minister said: “The peaceful efforts of European Council President Charles Michel are both a bridge and the fastest way to peace.”
“That is why” there is an importance for “a new round of negotiations,” Ms Baerbock argued, adding that Berlin “stands side by side with the parties as an honest mediator between Armenia and Azerbaijan”.
On the same day, the German Foreign Minister also pledged an additional 9.3 million Euros in aid to help Armenia deal with the refugee crisis stemming from the latest tensions in Karabakh.
According to plan, on November 4, Ms. Baerbock will go to Baku to hold talks with her Azerbaijani counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov.
The two Caucasus neighbors have been locked in a decades-long conflict over control of Azerbaijan's predominantly Armenian region, territory that Baku recaptured in a blitzkrieg in September.
Western-brokered negotiations aimed at concluding a comprehensive peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan have so far failed to make a breakthrough.
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