Abu Dhabi meeting between Armenian and Azerbaijani leadersCEFR A2
17 Jul 2025
Adapted from Arzu Geybullayeva, Global Voices • CC BY 3.0
Photo by Zulfugar Karimov, Unsplash
On July 10 the leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia met in Abu Dhabi. It was their first unmediated bilateral contact. Both leaders said that direct talks were the most efficient way to address normalization and the terms of a peace deal agreed in principle in March.
Officials said the talks covered border delimitation, the proposed Zangezur corridor and the initialing of a peace agreement. The background includes fighting in the early 1990s, a 1994 ceasefire, the 2020 war and a 2023 military operation that left Azerbaijan in full control of Karabakh.
Difficult words
- bilateral — involving two countries or two people
- unmediated — without a third person or group
- normalization — return to normal relations between the countries
- delimitation — the act of deciding or marking borders
- corridor — a narrow route or passage between places
- ceasefire — an agreement to stop fighting for a time
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Discussion questions
- Do you think direct talks between leaders can help make peace? Why?
- Why are border delimitation talks important after fighting?
- How important is it to have a ceasefire before making a peace agreement?
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