Armenia and Azerbaijan have agreed to
"not use force"
to settle the conflict around the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave, after a summit which brought together their two leaders and the Russian president.
Baku and Yerevan
“agreed not to use force”
, as well as to
“settle all disputes solely on the basis of recognition of mutual sovereignty and territorial integration”
, according to a joint statement adopted at the end of this tripartite summit.
Russian President Vladimir Putin also said he hoped for a
"normalization"
of relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan on Monday.
This summit was organized in Sochi, in the south-west of Russia, a month after border clashes which left 286 dead.
This is the heaviest toll since a war in 2020 for control of Nagorno-Karabakh, a region disputed between these two former Soviet republics since the 1990s.
“In our common opinion, it was a very useful meeting which created a very good atmosphere for possible future agreements”
, affirmed the Russian president, at the end of the tripartite summit.