The draft agreement to finish the bitter conflict of decades agreed 4 months ago, but the schedule to seal it is still uncertain.
The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan are conducting peace conversations in the United Arab Emirates after almost four decades of conflict.
The meeting at Abu Dhabi on Thursday between Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and the president of Azerbaiyani, Ilham Aliyev, confirmed by its two governments, occurs after the two countries finished a draft Peace Agreement in March.
The South Caucasus countries have fought against a series of wars since the late 1980s, when Nagorno-Karabakh, a region in Azerbaijan that had an ethnic-armenian population at that time, separated from Azerbaijan with the support of Armenia.
Peace conversations began after Azerbaijan recovered Karabakh in a ray offensive in September 2023, which caused a great exodus of almost every 100,000 Armenians of the territory, which fled to Armenia.
But the timeline to seal an agreement remains uncertain.
High fire violations along the shared border of 1,000 km (620 miles) strongly militarized increased shortly after the draft of the agreement was announced, although recently there have been no reported violations.
In a possible obstacle to an agreement, Azerbaijan has said that he wants Armenia to change his constitution, which says he makes implicit statements to Azerbaijan territory.
Erevan denies this, but Pashinyan has repeatedly emphasized in recent months, more recently this week, than the founding letter of the southern country of Caucasus must be updated.
Azerbaijan also requested a transport corridor through Armenia, joining most of its territory with Nakhchivan, an Azerbaijani enclave that limits with the ally of Baku, Turkiye.
The last meeting of Pashinyan and Aliyev was in May, apart from the summit of the European political community in Tirana, Albania.
In June, Pashinyan made a visit to Istanbul to hold conversations with the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, an Armenian meeting described as a “historical” step towards regional peace.
This week, the Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio, expressed the hope of a rapid peace agreement among the neighbors of the Caucasus.
The outbreak of hostilities between the two countries at the end of the 1980s caused massive expulsions of hundreds of thousands of Azeri mostly Muslims of Armenia, and Armenians, which are the majority Christians, of Azerbaijan.
