Armenian and Azerbaijani officials set to hold discussions in Qatar

(Horizon Weekly) – Armenia’s Security Council Secretary Armen Grigoryan will be in Doha, Qatar, on December 5 for a working visit, where he is expected to join a high profile panel at the Doha Forum.

Grigoryan and Hikmet Hajiyev, the senior foreign policy adviser to Azerbaijan’s president, will take part in a discussion titled “Armenia and Azerbaijan lasting peace. The Washington Agreement and a shared future.” The event places the two officials together once again following the August summit in Washington.

That August 8 meeting brought Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, United States President Donald Trump, and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to the White House for trilateral talks which resulted in a joint declaration. During the same ceremony, Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan and Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov also initialed a draft agreement on peace and future interstate relations.

Notably, while the Washington declaration was presented as a breakthrough in the peace process, it made no reference to the ongoing humanitarian concerns rooted in the ethnic cleansing of Artsakh, nor to the rights and security of its displaced population.