A peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan could be inked before Baku hosts the UN’s COP29 climate conference next month, according to the Armenian president.
Negotiations to end the decades-long conflict between the two countries have been tense, particularly after Azerbaijan last year seized the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh in a brief but deadly military offensive that prompted an exodus of 100,000 ethnic Armenians.
Armenia’s president, Vahagn Khachaturyan, told the Financial Times that while there were outstanding issues that still needed to be agreed, “we are approaching the end” of the discussions, adding that deal could be signed before the UN climate conference in November.