Russia is ready to host talks between Azerbaijan and Armenia so they could normalize their bilateral relations and sign a peace treaty, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement.

The Peace Treaty is ready to be signed,” an Armenian Foreign Ministry statement on Thursday said in announcing that Yerevan has accepted Baku’s latest proposals regarding the remaining contentious points of the text of a peace treaty between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Armenian and Azerbaijani officials said on Thursday that they had agreed the text of a peace agreement to end nearly four decades of conflict between the South Caucasus countries, a sudden breakthrough in a fitful and often bitter peace process.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Russian President Vladimir Putin speak at a summit of leaders of nations, which are members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), at the Kremlin in Moscow,

Armenia and Azerbaijan will not deploy third-country forces along their border after the two sides sign a peace agreement, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Thursday. Officials in Yerevan and Baku said earlier they had agreed the text of a peace agreement to end more than three decades of conflict between their countries,

Armenia and Azerbaijan have finalized the text of a peace agreement, marking a breakthrough in efforts to end nearly four decades of hostilities over Nagorno-Karabakh. Both countries confirmed on Thursday that