EU’s Tusk says is encouraged by recent contacts on NK conflict

YEREVAN, MARCH 5, ARMENPRESS. President of the European Council Donald Tusk says the status quo in the Nagorno Karabakh conflict is unsustainable; the conflict needs an early political settlement in accordance with international law, reports Armenpress.

“We have discussed with you today the solution ways of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. I am encouraged by the recent contacts between the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan. It is necessary to understand that the peace of these peoples is above all”, Donald Tusk said during a joint press conference with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in Brussels.

Pashinyan is in Brussels on working visit.

Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev had a brief meeting in Dushanbe on September 28, 2018, during which they reached an agreement to reduce tension and prevent incidents in the border. An “operative connection” has been established between the sides since the meeting of the two leaders.

Thereafter, they held another informal meeting in St. Petersburg in December on the sidelines of the informal meeting of the heads of CIS states.

Pashinal and Aliyev also met on January 22, 2019 in Davos on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum.

Edited and translated by Aneta Harutyunyan