ANKARA, July 5: Turkey is monitoring the progress of the peace talks between Azerbaijan and Armenia and expects an agreement that satisfies Baku’s legitimate demands, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.
Erdogan met Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on the sidelines of the Economic Cooperation Organization summit in Khankendi. During the meeting, bilateral relations between Turkey and Azerbaijan, regional and global issues were discussed.
“During the meeting, President Erdogan said the Turkey-Azerbaijan solidarity is exemplary and it is important to expand and maintain bilateral cooperation in energy and transport. President Erdogan said Turkey is closely following the comprehensive peace talks between Azerbaijan and Armenia and that an agreement is expected to be signed that will satisfy Azerbaijan’s legitimate demands,” the Turkish presidential office said.
During the meeting, Erdogan also said that he “welcomes the ceasefire between Iran and Israel and that it is in everyone’s interest to ensure sustainable stability in the region.”
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev plan to meet in Dubai in July to discuss a peace agreement between the two countries, Middle East Eye reported earlier, citing sources.
Armenian and Azerbaijani officials have said that they had agreed on the text of a peace agreement to end nearly four decades of conflict between the South Caucasus countries, a sudden breakthrough in a fitful and often bitter peace process.
The two post-Soviet countries have fought several wars over Nagorno-Karabakh, a disputed mountainous region, since it declared its secession from Soviet Azerbaijan in 1988. In September 2023, Azerbaijan took control of the territory, prompting a massive exodus of its ethnic Armenian population.
(UNI)
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