EU to host talks between rivals Azerbaijan and Armenia

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev have agreed to fulfill in Brussels on April sixth to start one other spherical of talks over the disputed area of Nagorno Karabakh.

With Russia's army slowed down in Ukraine observers say Azerbaijan has just lately sensed a possibility and has been stepping up its incursions within the area. Internationally it is recognised as Azerbaijan's, however since 1994 it has been managed by ethnic Armenians.

Each international locations had been as soon as a part of the Soviet Union and retain ties with Moscow.

Within the final incursion, Russia and Armenia say Azeri forces crossed over into an space managed by Russian peacekeepers final week and seized the strategic village of Parukh.

Within the close by village of Khramort Euronews talked to Anahit Grigoryan, an ethnic Armenian lady who had fled Parukh.

“The enemy got here and tried to enter our village. First, they referred to as on us to go away the world through loudspeakers, saying “You might be within the territory of Azerbaijan, if you concentrate on the lives of your kids, obey our legal guidelines, depart this territory,” she mentioned.

Now different ethnic Armenians fear about Russia's means to keep up the ceasefire that it brokered within the area after the conflict in 2020.

And reviews counsel a number of the 2,000 or so Russian peacekeepers that management a ceasefire line have left for Ukraine.

Moscow denies this and says it is taking steps to cut back the tensions.

Regional politics are additionally an element: while Azerbaijan has a robust regional ally in Turkey, Armenia and Turkey have distrusted one another for many years.

In 2020 Turkey bought game-changing army drones to Azerbaijan and in simply six weeks it routed Armenia, seizing massive components of Nagorno-Karabakh. Round six thousand folks had been killed within the preventing.

Turkey has by no means admitted to finishing up a genocide between 1915 and 1917 that killed between 500,000 and 1.5 million ethnic Armenians and the border with Armenia stays closed.