On August 31, a meeting between Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev took place in Brussels, through the mediation of EU Council President Charles Michel, the RA government reports.

Issues related to the release of POWs and the clarification of the fate of the missing, border demarcation and border security, regional de-blockade, the regulation of Armenia-Azerbaijan relations, and the Nagorno Karabakh problem were discussed.

An agreement was reached at the level of foreign ministers to continue substantive negotiations on the drafting of a peace treaty. The meeting of foreign ministers will take place within a month.

The next meeting of the Committee on Deregulation and Border Security will take place in Brussels in November.