The recent outbreaks of violence have seriously complicated the peace treaty initiative, which the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to at their latest summit in Brussels on August 31.
On April 6, Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev and Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, met in Brussels their first and, so far, only physical meeting this year. The summit, organized by the European Union and mediated by European Council President Charles Michel, was the third EU-arbitrated discussion of the Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders over the last four months (the sides previously met …