Overview

• Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated that Armenia and Azerbaijan have agreed on the basic principles for a peace treaty, but are still 'speaking different diplomatic languages'.
• Azerbaijan waged a military campaign in September in the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, ending three decades of rule there by ethnic Armenians and resulting in the vast majority of the 120,000 residents fleeing the region.
• Pashinyan expressed concern over Azerbaijan's commitment to the peace process, as it did not publicly comment on the agreed-upon peace outline announced last month.
• Azerbaijani officials' rhetoric, including referring to Armenia as 'Western Azerbaijan', is seen by Pashinyan as a potential preparation for a new war and a major obstacle to progress in the peace process.
• The government of Azerbaijan announced it would not participate in normalization talks with Armenia that were planned to take place in the United States later this month.