The European Council announced, on Tuesday 9 May, that a meeting between the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, and the Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan, will be held “on 14 May 2023, in the framework of a trilateral meeting in Brussels”.
The meeting will take place a few days after talks in the United States in early May, which reportedly led to “tangible progress” towards a peace agreement; although tensions between the two countries remain high, notably with the blockade of the Lachin corridor.
“The leaders have also agreed to continue to meet trilaterally in Brussels as frequently as necessary to address ongoing developments on the ground and standing agenda items of the Brussels meetings”, the EU Council said in its statement.
The trilateral talks on 14 May will be followed by a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on the margins of the European Political Community (EPC) summit in Chisinău, Moldova, on 1 June 2023.
Mr Michel expressed as well his intention to invite the leaders of Armenia, Azerbaijan, France and Germany to meet again on the margins of the next EPC Summit in Granada, Spain, in October 2023. (Original version in French by Camille-Cerise Gessant)