Armenia and Azerbaijan will hold a new round of talks in Washington on Sunday to try to normalise relations.
Armenia’s Foreign Ministry said tensions had been rising again between the two countries over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, where Russian peacekeepers were deployed in 2020 to end a war, since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.
The mountain region is internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan, but populated mainly by ethnic Armenians.