The leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia will meet in Brussels next month for talks to defuse escalating tensions amid recurring border clashes, the European Union said on Friday.

The breakthrough move comes after Charles Michel, President of the European Council, spoke to Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev as well as Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan over the phone the same day following “discussions earlier this week on the situation in the region and in the context of preparations of the Eastern Partnership Summit (EaP).”

The meeting is to take place in the margins of the EU’s Eastern Partnership Summit in Brussels on December 15.

Source: VOV5