Overview

• Armenia aims to conclude a peace agreement with Azerbaijan in the coming months and establish diplomatic relations, aiming to end the three-decades-long conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
• Azerbaijan retook control of the contested region of Nagorno-Karabakh, causing most of the region's 120,000 ethnic Armenians to flee.
• Armenia is expressing interest in opening its border with Turkey for the citizens of third countries and holders of diplomatic passports, a border that has been closed since 1993.
• Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated that Armenia sees no advantage in continuing to host Russian military bases on its territory and aims to diversify the country's security relations.
• A meeting for peace talks between the Armenian Prime Minister and the Azerbaijani President in late October was cancelled, allegedly due to the latter's withdrawal from the meeting.