Planned Brussels meeting between Armenia, Azerbaijan leaders scrapped

PanARMENIAN.Net - Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev on Friday, November 25 cancelled a planned meeting with Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who he said had demanded the mediation of French President Emmanuel Macron, AFP reports.

Azerbaijan has accused France of backing Armenia in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

On Friday, Aliyev said he would not be meeting with Pashinyan in Brussels on December 7 because the Armenian leader demanded that Macron attend the talks.

Pashinyan "has agreed to the meeting only on condition that the President of France Macron take part," Aliyev told an international conference in Azerbaijan's capital Baku. "That means the meeting will not take place."

He accused Pashinyan of attempting to "scupper the peace talks."

There was no immediate reaction from Armenia.

The leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia last met in Prague on 6 October 2022 in the margins of the first European Political Community at the invitation of the President of the French Republic and the President of the European Council.