YEREVAN —
Armenia said Monday its foreign
minister would meet his counterpart from Azerbaijan in their first talks after
deadly border clashes between the arch foes last week jeopardized a peace
process.
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The national security council in Armenia meanwhile
on Monday revised its death toll from the fighting last week from 136 to 207,
taking total fatalities on both sides to 286.
“At the initiative of the American side, a
trilateral meeting between (Armenian foreign minister)
Ararat Mirzoyan, (US Secretary
of State) Antony Blinken and (Azerbaijani counterpart) Jeyhun Bayramov will
take place today in New York,” the Armenian foreign ministry said in a
statement.
The flare up last week was the worst fighting since
the 2020 war and has jeopardized nascent peace process between the arch foes.
The clashes ended after two days with US mediation.
The new Armenian toll included two civilians, the
security council said.
“Two civilians are missing, 293 troops and three
civilians were wounded and 20 troops were captured,” it added.
Baku has reported 79 deaths among its military.
US House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi, during a visit to Yerevan Sunday, blamed Baku for “illegal”
attacks on Armenia, condemning an “assault on the sovereignty” of the country.
Washington’s ties are deepening with Yerevan whose
traditional ally Moscow is distracted with its invasion of Ukraine.
Russia has close ties with both Baku and Yerevan. It
is obligated to intervene if Armenia is invaded under a security pact, but did
not rush to help despite an appeal from Yerevan.
Armenia and
Azerbaijan have fought two wars — in the
1990s and in 2020 — over the contested region of Nagorno-Karabakh, an
Armenian-populated enclave of Azerbaijan.
A six-week war in 2020 claimed the lives of more
than 6,500 troops from both sides and ended with a Russian-brokered ceasefire.
Under the deal, Armenia ceded swathes of territory
it had controlled for decades, and Moscow deployed about 2,000 Russian
peacekeepers to oversee the fragile truce.
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