Attempts to Resolve Conflict Between Armenia and Azerbaijan Since 2020

On March 19, 2024, at a meeting with residents of the border villages of Tavush region, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said that if Yerevan does not fulfill Baku’s demands for the transfer of a number of border villages – exclaves of Soviet times, a war may begin. The beginning of the Karabakh conflict Tensions between Azerbaijan and Armenia flared up after Nagorno-Karabakh announced its secession from the Azerbaijani SSR in 1988. On September 2, 1991, the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR; 1991-2023; not recognized by any UN member state) was proclaimed as part of the USSR, which marked the beginning of…