The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan ended two days of negotiations in Berlin on Thursday, with official Yerevan giving no indications of major progress made towards the signing of an Armenian-Azerbaijani peace treaty.
Just days after saying that Azerbaijan is “very likely” to invade Armenia, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian expressed hope on Tuesday that the foreign ministers of the two states will make progress at their upcoming talks in Berlin.
A leading Georgian bank announced on Monday a $303.6 million deal to buy Armenia’s Ameriabank partly owned by Ruben Vardanyan, an Armenian billionaire jailed in Azerbaijan along with several other former leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian openly criticized Russia at the weekend for occupying and annexing Ukraine’s internationally recognized territory, underscoring the Armenian government’s deepening rift with Moscow.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian appears to have acknowledged that Armenia’s deepening ties with the European Union and the United States are causing unease in neighboring Iran.