Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev held a tripartite meeting within the framework of the Munich Security Conference. Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan, Ambassador of Armenia to Germany Viktor Yengibaryan, as well as Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov and Assistant to the President of Azerbaijan Hikmet Hajiyev, were present at the meeting.

The Armenian government reported that it has agreed to continue working on a peace treaty. According to the Azerbaijani state news agency APA, the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan have been instructed to meet and continue negotiations on the peace treaty and border demarcation in the near future.

Olaf Scholz, in turn, expressed Germany’s and Europe’s readiness to support the negotiations between Armenia and Azerbaijan to the best of their ability on his social media page.

The last meeting between Pashinyan and Aliyev occurred in Saint Petersburg during the informal summit of the CIS. Issues related to the Armenia-Azerbaijan peace agenda were discussed in a bilateral format. This was the first meeting of the leaders of the two countries after the ethnic cleansing of Artsakh.

Additionally, a meeting took place in Munich between Armenia’s Minister of Defense, Suren Papikyan, and Bulgaria’s Defense Minister, Todor Tagarev. During the meeting, they discussed matters of Armenian-Bulgarian cooperation in the defense sector. The parties also deliberated on issues related to collaboration and regional security. An agreement was reached on further expanding cooperation between the two countries.