The presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan will meet in Romania, possibly next month, government spokesmen said Friday, for talks aimed at resolving a nearly two-decade conflict over the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Government officials in Yerevan, Armenia and the Azerbaijani capital Baku both confirmed that Armenian President Robert Kocharian and his Azerbaijani counterpart, Ilham Aliev, were intending to meet, but gave no further details.
The two Caucasus leaders are expected to attend a forum for Black Sea countries scheduled for June 5 in the Romanian capital.
Talks held between the two presidents in France in February ended in failure, despite international mediators’ efforts to push the leaders to resolve Nagorno-Karabakh’s status.
The enclave is inside Azerbaijan but populated mostly by ethnic Armenians, who have administrated it since an uneasy 1994 cease-fire ended six years of full-scale fighting.
Sporadic border clashes have grown more frequent since the breakdown of talks and the lack of resolution has hindered development throughout the strategic Caucasus region.
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