Azerbaijani president, Armenian prime minister discuss peace treaty, border delimitation at Munich meeting

By Elena Teslova

MOSCOW (AA) - Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev discussed on Saturday issues with signing a peace treaty and delimitation of borders at a meeting with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, the press service of the Azerbaijani president said in a statement.

The meeting on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference in Germany saw the two leaders instructing their respective foreign ministers to hold talks on preparing a peace treaty and soon convene a commission on border delimitation.

Aliyev and Pashinyan also held a trilateral meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz ahead of the bilateral meeting.

Relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia have been tense since 1991 when the Armenian military occupied Nagorno-Karabakh, a territory internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, and seven adjacent regions.

Azerbaijan liberated most of the region during a war in the fall of 2020, which ended with a Russian-brokered peace agreement, opening the door to normalization.

Baku initiated an anti-terrorism operation in Karabakh last September to establish constitutional order, after which illegal separatist forces in the region surrendered.