{"id":5258,"date":"2024-04-29T00:59:14","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T00:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internationalpulse.net\/?p=5258"},"modified":"2024-04-29T00:59:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T00:59:14","slug":"blinken-speaks-to-azeri-armenian-leaders-about-peace-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalpulse.net\/?p=5258","title":{"rendered":"Blinken speaks to Azeri, Armenian leaders about peace talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gdb.voanews.com\/0eb53095-4069-45db-ace4-7befa9007c31_w800_h450.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"wsw\">\n<p>U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has spoken to the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan and reaffirmed Washington&#8217;s support for a peace treaty between the South Caucasus neighbors, the State Department said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Yerevan suffered a major defeat last September when Baku&#8217;s forces retook the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, which while part of Azerbaijan had a predominantly Armenian population.<\/p>\n<p>Peace talks have become bogged down in issues including demarcation of the two countries&#8217; 1,000-kilometers (620-mile) border, which remains closed and heavily militarized.<\/p>\n<p>Blinken spoke to Azeri President Ilham Aliyev on Sunday and urged him &#8220;to keep up the momentum with his Armenian counterpart, reiterating U.S. willingness to support those efforts,&#8221; the State Department said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Aliyev&#8217;s press service said on Sunday that foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia will soon hold a meeting in Almaty in Kazakhstan to continue negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The president considers an important step that &#8230; Azerbaijan and Armenia have begun the process of border demarcation,&#8221; Russia&#8217;s Interfax news agency cited the press service as saying.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate call with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Blinken reaffirmed U.S. support for progress on a durable and dignified peace agreement, the department said, but did not specify when the call took place.<\/p>\n<p>In his call with Aliyev, Blinken also welcomed the transfer to house arrest last week of a prominent Azerbaijani economist and opposition politician who has been imprisoned since last July while awaiting trial.<\/p>\n<p>Azerbaijan has also detained a string of independent reporters since late last year. Several are now facing trial on charges unrelated to journalistic activity, such as smuggling.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Secretary Blinken again urged Azerbaijan to adhere to its international human rights obligations and commitments and release those unjustly detained in Azerbaijan,&#8221; the State Department said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/blinken-speaks-to-azeri-armenian-leaders-about-peace-talks\/7588897.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has spoken to the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.10 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Blinken speaks to Azeri, Armenian 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