2023-06-02 10:39:19
What Macron said
After the five-party meeting held in Chisinau, French President Emmanuel Macron said that Paris will continue to make efforts to normalize relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
“Today, together with the head of the European Council Charles Michel and German Chancellor Olaf Scholtz, we met with the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Nikol Pashinyan and Ilham Aliyev, in order to continue the adjustment between the two sides and help peaceful relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan.”
The French president said that it is necessary to ensure the safety of the population and the rights of ethnic minorities within the framework of the regulation.
Pashinyan considers the meeting useful
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said after the five-party meeting held in Chisinau that he considers this discussion useful.
The Armenian service of RFE/RL – Azatutyun writes that Pashinyan expressed these views in a meeting with the Armenian community in Moldova after the negotiations:
“Today there is one more preliminary detail, so I say initially that we still need to check Azerbaijan’s reaction to my statement. It seems that the parties noted that they do not object to the demarcation of the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan based on the 1975 maps. This means another step towards the recognition of the territorial integrity of Armenia in the area of 29.8 thousand square kilometers, and the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan in the area of 86.6 thousand square kilometers.”
Pashinyan said that a number of other issues were also discussed during the meeting:
“We also discussed prisoners and missing persons, humanitarian issues. We had a detailed discussion on the dialogue regarding the rights and security of Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians. Here, our European partners expressed a certain position.”
The Prime Minister of Armenia also said that there will be another meeting of the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan on June 12 in Washington.
According to him, a tripartite meeting of the working group on regional communications should be held on June 2 in Moscow.
Five-way meeting ended in Chisinau
The meeting between Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan with the participation of the heads of the European Council, France and Germany ended in Chisinau.
It is not yet known whether the parties will make a separate or joint statement about the results of the meeting.
The news of the Armenian government says that before the five-way meeting, a three-way meeting was held between Charles Michel, Aliyev and Pashinyan.
Charles Michel: ‘We just had a very good meeting’
President of the Council of the European Union Charles Michel made a statement to the press after the five-party meeting on June 1.
President of Azerbaijan in Chisinau on June 1 Ilham AliyevPrime Minister of Armenia Nikol PashinyanChancellor of Germany Olaf Solts, President of France emmanuel makron and said that a meeting was held with his participation.
According to AZERTAC, Charles Michel said in his statement that they had a very good meeting:
“We had the opportunity to review the issues we discussed in Brussels in May, discuss coordination, security, delimitation of borders, peace agreement. This meeting was a very good preparation for the next meeting to be held in Brussels on July 21.”
According to him, this means that they work very hard:
“We intend to support all positive efforts towards the normalization of relations. We also stated that we intend to invite President Aliyev, Prime Minister Pashinyan, Chancellor Scholtz and President Macron to a meeting again within the framework of the next meeting of the “European political union” to be held in Spain.
According to his emphasis, they will do everything in their power to help achieve more progress towards the normalization of relations by the European Union.
In recent years, Azerbaijan and Armenia have been conducting peace talks with the mediation of both Russia and the European Union (EU) with certain interruptions. But the peace agreement was not signed between the parties.
This last meeting took place after the summit of the European Political Community.
Freedom radio
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