2023-06-30 11:21:55
US Secretary of State Antoni Blinken on June 29, the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia Jeyhun Bayramov and Ararat Mirzoyan while concluding the talks held in Washington between
After three days of talks in Washington, Blinken told reporters that some of the most difficult issues have yet to be resolved.
The Secretary of State did not say what exactly the conversation was about.
Blinken said after closed-door talks at the State Department’s Foreign Service Institute in northern Virginia. “progress has been made in the negotiations, including agreements on some additional items, as well as a deeper understanding of the parties’ positions on the remaining issues and an acknowledgment that hard work remains to be done in order to reach a final agreement.”
He said that the negotiations took place in the conditions of “sincerity and openness” and he hopes that the leaders of the two countries will make progress in the negotiations with the European Union in the coming weeks.
The foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia did not make a statement to the media.
Azerbaijani MFA on the Washington meeting: ‘A step towards mutual understanding has been taken’
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan from June 27 to 30 Jeyhun Bayramov and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan there were talks at the National Foreign Relations Training Center named after George Schultz in Arlington, United States of America.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan (MFA) reports that while in Washington, he was the Secretary of State of the United States Antoni Blinkenassistant to the president and national security adviser Ceyk SullivanThey also met.
According to the information, additional progress was achieved in the negotiations between the ministers and their delegations on the draft bilateral Agreement on the establishment of Peace and Interstate Relations:
“An agreement was reached on the additional articles of the draft agreement and a step towards mutual understanding was taken on the draft agreement. At the same time, it was noted that there is a need to continue additional work on some key issues.”
For now, the details of the negotiations are not disclosed.
The previous negotiations of the ministers took place in Washington on May 1-4.
It was reported that a mutual agreement was reached on some articles of the draft agreement, but at the same time, the positions remained different on some main issues.
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