Armenia agreed to return four abandoned border villages to Azerbaijan in what both countries described as an important milestone as the bitter South Caucasus rivals edge toward a peace deal.
“Armenia has agreed to return four villages that were under occupation since the early 1990s,” Azerbaijan Foreign Ministry spokesman Aykhan Hajizade said in a statement on social media Friday.
Armenia’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the preliminary agreement was reached during the eighth round of talks toward defining the frontier on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.