No meeting of the President of the European Council Charles Michel, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev will be held in October, according to Toivo Klaar, the European Union (EU) Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the Crisis in Georgia.
Klaar told a conference of the Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI Armenia) on Wednesday, October 25 that the meeting was canceled due to lack of time, RFE/RL’s Armenian service reveals.
“Our goal is for the Armenians of Karabakh to return to their homes,” Klaar said.
“Emphasizing the meeting in Granada, which Aliyev did not participate in, we are now trying to organize a meeting between Pashinyan and Aliyev in Brussels.”
Pashinian and Aliyev were scheduled to meet, together with Michel and the leaders of Germany and France, on the fringes of the EU’s October 5 summit in Granada, Spain. Armenian officials expected them to sign a framework peace deal there. However, Aliyev withdrew from the talks at the last minute, citing pro-Armenian statements made by French officials. Michel said afterwards that the Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders will likely hold a trilateral meeting with him in Brussels later in October.
