A protester wearing the Armenian national flag stands in front of Russian peacekeepers blocking the road outside Stepanakert, capital of the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, on December 24, 2022. (AFP)

Armenia and Azerbaijan to hold talks on peace deal ‘in near future’

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Published: 28 April ,2023: 02:09 PM GST Updated: 28 April ,2023: 02:32 PM GST

Armenia and Azerbaijan will hold talks in the near future on a peace deal to try to settle their long-running differences, Russia’s TASS news agency quoted the secretary of Armenia’s Security Council as saying.

It also reported that Armenia’s defense minister had discussed the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh, the focus of two wars in the past three decades, with the new commander of Russian peacekeepers in the region.

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