Armenia

October 7, 2024 10:13 PM

Armenia hopes to sign peace articles with Azerbaijan within a month, president says

Armenia hopes to sign provisions of a peace deal with Azerbaijan in the next four weeks, a step that could ease tensions in the conflict-ridden South Caucasus, even as Baku has signalled that the process is stalled. The two countries have been engaged in peace talks for the past year, since Azerbaijan in September 2023 retook the former breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh after 30 years of de facto independence, prompting almost its entire ethnic Armenian population of around 100,000 to flee t...

Putin agrees to withdraw Russian forces from various Armenian regions, says Ifax

President Vladimir Putin has agreed to withdraw Russian forces and border guards from various parts of Armenia at Yerevan's request, Putin's spokesman was cited as saying on Thursday by Russia's Interfax news agency. The announcement follows the departure of nearly 2,000 Russian peacekeepers from in and around the Nagorno-Karabakh region which Azerbaijan returned by force in September last year. Their exit ended a multi-year deployment which gave Moscow a military foothold in the strategic S...