The presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia are planned to meet in Paris on October 27 to continue talks on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said in Baku.

It will be a second meeting between Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan and Serzh Sargsyan of Armenia since tensions escalated between the two countries in August.

Armenia captured Azerbaijan’s Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven adjacent districts in a war after the Soviet breakup in 1991, driving out hundreds of thousands of peaceful civilians in what Azerbaijan calls ethnic cleansing. 

Large-scale hostilities ended with a ceasefire in 1994 but no peace agreement has been signed. 

Azerbaijan has repeatedly warned that it reserves the right to resort to military force to regain control of its internationally-recognized territory if peace talks mediated by France, Russia and the US fail.

Bakudaily.Az