Armenia and Azerbaijan agree on ‘historic’ return of villages
- Armenia has agreed to return four villages to Azerbaijan after holding them since the 1990s, per Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesperson Aykhan Hajizada.
- Both countries view this return as a crucial step towards a peace deal following two wars post-Soviet Union collapse, according to Hajizada.
- The villages, key due to their proximity to Armenia's main trade route and gas pipeline from Russia, were agreed to be returned at a border meeting between deputy prime ministers.
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Baco announced yesterday, speaking on behalf of the Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ayhan Hajizad, that Armenia has agreed to relocate four villages within its borders to Azerbaijan. Hajizad wrote on X.com that the four villages had been under Armenian control since the early 1990s and that their return represented "a historic event that has been waiting to happen." The Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement that the two …
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Armenia agreed to return more villages to Azerbaijan, which both sides considered an important milestone in moving towards a post-WWII peace agreement after the breakup of the Soviet Union.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres welcomed the agreement reached between the state commissions of Armenia and Azerbaijan within the framework of the demarcation between the two countries, according to Guterres spokesman Stefan Dijarik, according to Tanjug.
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