Tbilisi (EFE).- The Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinián, and the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliev, will meet on October 5 in the Spanish city of Granada, the Security Council of Armenia reported today.
The heads of state and government of France and Germany as well as the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, will also take part in this meeting, which will involve the signing of a peace treaty between the two countries.
The Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia, Armén Grigorián, will travel to Brussels this Tuesday to prepare for the meeting, the official statement said.
Grigorian will hold consultations with the chief adviser to the Azerbaijani presidency Hikmet Gadzhiev in the Belgian capital.
Armenia and Azerbaijan hope to converge their positions in Granada
Pashinián recently assured that the peace treaty would generally not be signed in the Spanish city, but that positions could be expected to converge.
However, in a speech to the nation on Sunday, he expressed his willingness to determine as soon as possible “de jure” what was agreed with Baku to define the border between the two countries and thus avoid future conflicts.
Aliev himself assured this week that Yerevan’s stance during the Azerbaijani military operation in the Nagorno-Karabakh region paves the way for the signing of the peace agreement.
He was referring to Armenia’s failure to engage militarily with the Karabakhs, which has led to anti-government protests against Pashinian.
The EU calls for the rights of Karabakh Armenians to be respected
The meeting in Grenada comes after the surrender this week of the self-proclaimed Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, which agreed to disband its armed forces following its defeat by the Azerbaijanis.
The European Union has called on Baku to respect the rights of Karabakh’s Armenian residents, which Alíev did this week.
However, the Karabakh authorities announced on Sunday the start of the evacuation of those wishing to leave the region for Armenia.
The Karabakh conflict, a region that will inevitably become part of Azerbaijan, has preoccupied Armenians and Azerbaijanis since 1988, when the Soviet Union still existed.