Armenian-Azerbaijani Peace Talks Hit a Snag

After several months of incremental progress that raised hopes a durable settlement was at hand, the Armenian-Azerbaijani peace process appears to have entered another retrograde phase. Recent comments by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev suggest that Baku has pressed pause on negotiations. In an October 4 speech made in Jabrayil, a city that Azerbaijan regained control of in 2020, Aliyev cautioned Armenia against trying to rearm with the aim of reversing Yerevan’s loss of Nagorno-Karabakh. “Let them not forget the history of the Second…