BAKU: US President Donald Trump is trying ahead to Azerbaijan and Armenia signing a long-awaited peace treaty, Eric Jacobs, a senior adviser of the State Bureau of Vitality Sources of the US Division of State, mentioned on Friday (Apr 4).
Talking at an power occasion in Baku, Jacobs mentioned the peace treaty would usher in “a brand new period of safety and prosperity” for the South Caucasus area.
Armenia and Azerbaijan mentioned final month that they’d agreed the textual content of a peace settlement to finish nearly 4 a long time of battle between the 2 nations over the area of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Combating over Karabakh, which is a part of largely Muslim Azerbaijan however had till 2023 a closely Armenian Christian inhabitants, broke out within the late Nineteen Eighties, when each nations have been a part of the collapsing Soviet Union.
The territory gained de facto independence from Azerbaijan with Armenian assist by way of a collection of wars, however was in the end retaken by Azerbaijan in September 2023, in a navy offensive that prompted nearly all of its 100,000 ethnic Armenians to flee.
Since then, the 2 nations have each mentioned they need a peace deal, however talks have been fitful and progress gradual till a sudden breakthrough final month.
The peace deal remains to be not anticipated to be signed rapidly although as Azerbaijan is demanding that Armenia first change its structure to take away what Baku says are references to Karabakh independence.
For the reason that draft deal was agreed, each Armenia and Azerbaijan have additionally accused one another of firing on positions alongside the 2 nations’ closed and closely militarised border. No casualties have been reported within the incidents.
