ArmInfo. The meeting between European Council President Charles Michel, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, and Azeri President Ilham Aliyev has been postponed, Radio Free Europe (RFE)/Radio Liberty (RL) reported on Wednesday.
Originally scheduled for the end of October, the meeting was temporarily canceled due to "timeframe issues," the media organization reported, citing European Union (EU) Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the Crisis in Georgia Toivo Klaar.
Earlier this month, Michel confirmed that Pashinyan and Aliyev agreed to attend an EU-supported and monitored meeting on the relations between those two countries.
"Our goal is for the Armenians of Karabakh to return to their homes. Noting the importance of the meeting in Granada, in which Aliyev did not participate, we are now trying to organize a Pashinyan-Aliyev meeting in Brussels. Despite the slow process, we believe that the result will be the signing of the document," Klaar said, without specifying possible new dates.
The Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders were supposed to hold talks with European officials in Granada following the latest tensions in the Nagorno-Karabakh region. However, Aliyev decided not to attend the meeting, allegedly because of an "anti-Azerbaijani atmosphere" and after Germany and France rejected the possibility of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's participation in the talks.