Africa-Press – Mozambique. President Filipe Nyusi revealed yesterday that Azerbaijan has asked for Mozambique’s “support” for the “ongoing process to achieve peace” in the conflict with neighbouring Armenia.
“This request is a clear recognition of our approach of opting for dialogue as the only weapon for resolving disputes,” President Nyusi said after meeting Ambassador Elchin Amirbayov, Special Envoy of his Azerbaijani counterpart, Ilham Aliyev, in Maputo.
At issue are the recent tensions in Nagorno-Karabakh, which have already led more than 100,000 Armenians living in the enclave to flee to Armenia, and the fact that Mozambique is currently a non-permanent member of the Security Council.
“And as has been characteristic, our position of neutrality was once again manifested in relation to this conflict during our discussions in the United Nations Security Council, a body of which we are a non-permanent member for the 2023-2024 biennium,” President Nyusi recalled.
According to the Mozambican president, Thursday’s meeting also covered “issues related to regional and international security”, but “also the possibilities of increasing cooperation” between the two countries, “further strengthening existing bilateral ties”.
The enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, which has a majority Orthodox Christian Armenian population, declared independence from Muslim Azerbaijan after a war in the early 1990s, but armed incidents remained frequent in the area and along the official border between the two countries, culminating in serious border incidents in recent weeks.
The President of the European Council, Charles Michel, announced on October 5th that a meeting was planned for the end of the month in Brussels between the Armenian Prime Minister and the President of Azerbaijan, to discuss tensions in the enclave.
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