Azerbaijan and Armenia strike deal to end decades-long conflict

Source: The Guardian

Caucasus neighbours agree final two terms of draft peace treaty over disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region

Agence France-Presse
Thu 13 Mar 2025 12.45 EDT

Azerbaijan and Armenia have successfully wrapped up peace talks aimed at resolving their decades-long conflict.

The foreign ministries of the Caucasus neighbours say a peace treaty has been agreed in what would be in a breakthrough in a region where Russia, the EU, the US and Turkey all jostle for influence.

Two wars were fought for control of Azerbaijan’s Armenian-populated region of Nagorno-Karabakh – at the end of the Soviet Union and in 2020 – before Azerbaijan seized the territory in September 2023.

Both countries had repeatedly said a comprehensive peace deal to end their longstanding animosity was within reach but officials failed to reach consensus on a draft agreement.


Ethnic Armenians pass through a military checkpoint after fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh. The disputed region was taken over by Azerbaijan in a lightning offensive in September 2023. Photograph: Anatoly Maltsev/EPA

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