Spokesperson of the foreign ministry of Azerbaijan Leyla Abdullayeva has announced about the preparation of the possible meeting between Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan and president of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev. ARMENPRESS reports, citing Azerbaijani media, the Azerbaijani MFA spokesperson provided no details on the terms of the meeting. “Works continue in this direction”, she said.
The OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs also emphasized in their January statement that measures will be taken for arranging a meeting between the Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders.
Pashinyan and Aliyev have held 3 non-formal meetings so far. The 1st was in Dushanbe in September 2018 in the sidelines of the CIS summit. The 2nd took place in St. Petersburg in December 2018. This time the leaders met during the dinner organized in the framework of the informal meeting between leaders of CIS states following the EAEU regular sitting. Pashinyan-Aliyev 3rd meeting took place in January 2019 in Davos in the sidelines of the World Economic Forum.