EU says Azerbaijani, Armenian presidents’ meeting significant
The upcoming Paris meeting between the presidents of Azerbaijan
and Armenia is a positive action, EU Baku office head Malena Mard
told reporters October 22.
"Holding of such high-level meetings is very important," she said.
"We expect that these actions will change the status quo."
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian President Serzh
Sargsyan are expected to meet in late October on the initiative of
French President Francois Hollande.
Armenia occupied over 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally
recognized territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent
regions, after laying territorial claims against its South Caucasus
neighbor that caused a brutal war in the early 1990s. Long-standing
efforts by U.S., Russian and French mediators have been largely
fruitless so far.
Armenia has not yet implemented four U.N. Security Council
resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the
surrounding regions.