Leaders of Armenia, Azerbaijan To Meet In Brussels

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian (right) and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Brussels in August 2022.

The European Council says the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan have agreed to meet in Brussels on May 14 as they continue talks to work out a peace agreement amid renewed tensions over a road checkpoint installed by Baku at the start of the Lachin Corridor, the only route linking Armenia to the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region. The talks, which will include European Council President Charles Michel, come after four days of discussions between the leaders in Washington earlier this month. The nations have fought two wars over Nagorno-Karabakh -- in 1990 and 2020 -- and regularly clash over the territory. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Armenian Service, click here.