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“Agreed to Reduce Tensions:” Aliyev, Pashinyan Talk in Dushanbe<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n By<\/span>Emil Sanamyan<\/strong>\n \n September 30, 2018<\/span>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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In what became their first ever conversation, leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to work towards reduction of frontline tensions and to resume direct dialogue. Nikol Pashinyan and Ilham Aliyev met during the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) summit hosted in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, on September 27-28. The development seems to signal a change in policy previously declared by Pashinyan not to negotiate on Nagorno Karabakh\u2019s behalf.<\/p>\n

Speaking via his Facebook account, Pashinyan\u00a0described<\/a>\u00a0the conversation as follows: \u201cWe agreed to instruct our defense ministers to take concrete steps on the borderline and in general to reduce tensions\u2026 I informed [Nagorno Karabakh President] Bako Sahakyan about this agreement, and this agreement was also acceptable for him. In essence, we can say that there is an agreement that measures will be taken to prevent the ceasefire violation along the Armenian-Azerbaijani border and along the Karabakh-Azerbaijan line of contact.<\/p>\n

\u201cNext, we have recorded our commitment to the negotiation process and the negotiation process. It means that the Karabakh issue should be settled through negotiations.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe third important point is that we have agreed to establish a direct communication channel, [though] we have not reached a specific agreement on technical terms, we have just agreed that we should assign our respective departments to develop such a system of operative communication.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Azerbaijani government confirmed these agreements were reached.<\/p>\n

Prior to the Aliyev-Pashinyan meeting in Dushanbe, their foreign ministers met in New York along with French, Russian and U.S. mediators, who once again called on the parties to reduce tensions. During the CIS summit, Russian president Vladimir Putin approached Pashinyan to discuss Armenian-Azerbaijani issues; Putin had visited with Aliyev in Baku earlier in the day.<\/p>\n

An Armenian-Azerbaijani agreement on managing cease-fire violations has been in place since 1995, but under Ilham Aliyev Azerbaijan refused to implement it. Armenia and Azerbaijan last maintained a direct communication line in the early 2000s, when Azerbaijan was still led by the current president\u2019s father, Heydar Aliyev, and Armenia \u2013 by Robert Kocharyan.<\/p>\n

The agreements to reduce tensions again became the focus of Karabakh negotiations since the two sides fought a brief, but intense\u00a0war in April 2016<\/a>. In subsequent talks in Vienna and St. Petersburg, Armenia and Azerbaijan committed to specific measures to that effect, such as doubling of the number of international monitors from about half a dozen currently. Subsequently, Azerbaijan refused to implement that agreement.<\/p>\n

However, after several operational setbacks in 2017, Azerbaijan moved to reduce frontline tensions anyway. Last October, Aliyev met with Pashinyan\u2019s predecessor Serzh Sargsyan in Geneva, Switzerland, and \u201cagreed to measures to further reduce tensions so that we don\u2019t have soldiers killed on the frontline, on both sides.\u201d<\/p>\n

In almost twelve months since then about 20 soldiers have been killed in various frontline incidents on both sides, five of them in the last couple of weeks, as sniper attacks intensified. This month, after a long hiatus, Azerbaijan also resumed shelling of Armenian border villages.<\/p>\n

This, most recent uptick in violence was likely intended to get Pashinyan\u2019s attention and it appears to have succeeded.\u00a0 At the same time, by agreeing to negotiate cease-fire issues with Azerbaijan directly, Armenia\u2019s prime minister moved away from\u00a0his earlier position<\/a>\u00a0that he could not negotiate on behalf of Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh).<\/p>\n

Speaking\u00a0<\/a>at the United Nations General Assembly earlier in the week, Pashinyan\u00a0put the resolution of the Karabakh conflict in the context of genocide prevention. \u201cKarabakh must not be a part of Azerbaijan, unless one wants to trigger a new genocide of Armenian people,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n

Addressing the mass rally of his supporters in Yerevan, then prime ministerial candidate\u00a0Pashinyan pledged<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cNagorno Karabakh will become an inseparable part of the Republic of Armenia.\u201d He reiterated his view that Karabakh should be part of Armenia\u00a0several weeks ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":1185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-institute-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n"Agreed to Reduce Tensions:" Aliyev, Pashinyan Talk in Dushanbe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/armenian\/2018\/09\/30\/agreed-to-reduce-tensions-aliyev-pashinyan-talk-in-dushanbe\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\""Agreed to Reduce Tensions:" Aliyev, Pashinyan Talk in Dushanbe - 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