Azatutyun.am. Bilateral talks between the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Washington will be held over the course of “a few days”, according to a senior official in the United States privy to details of the negotiations schedule.
“Both parties have acknowledged that this is the first time that they will be able to meet over the course of a few days,” the official said. “We expect discussions throughout the week. Our goal is to make sure that the ministers are able to sit down and talk to each other.”
The first bilateral meeting between Ararat Mirzoyan, of Armenia, and Jeyhun Bayramov, of Azerbaijan, took place on Monday and followed their separate meetings with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken as well as their trilateral meeting in Washington.
Another senior U.S. official familiar with the negotiations said that “rights and security are something that we believe is very important in terms of what the future of the region looks like, is something that we have continually engaged with throughout the region, and we will continue to be engaged on.”
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The official also reiterated the importance of ensuring free movement of commercial and private vehicles along the Lachin Corridor between Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh that was completely blocked by Azerbaijan on April 23 when it established a checkpoint at the entrance to the five-kilometer-wide corridor.
