“There is an agreement on an upcoming meeting of the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia,” Armenian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ani Badalian told RFE/RL’s Armenian Service, without providing further details.
Badalian said work on issues between the two countries was continuing.
The confirmation came after Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov said earlier on Wednesday that he would meet with his Armenian counterpart, Ararat Mirzoyan, in the near future. Bayramov said the two ministers had last exchanged views on a number of issues on the sidelines of a Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit that was held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on August 31-September 1.
Bayramov said Azerbaijan was closely monitoring Armenia’s constitutional process, reiterating Baku’s demand that Armenia remove a reference to the 1990 Declaration of Independence from its Constitution. The declaration cites a 1989 unification act adopted by the legislative bodies of Soviet Armenia and the then Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast, references that Baku views as territorial claims to Azerbaijan.
According to Azerbaijani news agency APA, Bayramov said a joint declaration adopted by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian in Washington in August 2025 stipulated that Armenia should adopt a new constitution for a peace agreement to be signed between the two countries, which have fought two major wars over Nagorno-Karabakh since the early 1990s.
“The deadlines are Armenia’s internal affair,” Bayramov said, adding that Pashinian had said after Armenia’s June 7 elections that the draft constitution would be presented to the public by the end of the year.
In presenting his government’s five-year plan of action to parliament in late August, Pashinian said the reference to the Declaration of Independence should not be included in the new constitution. He did not give a timetable, saying only that the draft would be unveiled “in the coming months.”
Bayramov also said that issues concerning particular settlements would be addressed as part of the delimitation and demarcation process along the roughly 1,000-kilometer border shared by Armenia and Azerbaijan. He said the countries had agreed to proceed from north to south, beginning at the point where the borders of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia meet.
The delimitation process stalled in spring 2024 after about 12 kilometers of the border were delimited and demarcated in Armenia’s Tavush province. Armenia ceded control of four uninhabited villages that had previously been part of Soviet Azerbaijan.
It remains unclear when the process will reach Armenian territories currently controlled by Azerbaijan or the exclaves that the two countries have in each other’s territory and do not currently control.
Bayramov also discussed the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity (TRIPP), a United States-backed regional connectivity project intended to link Azerbaijan with its western exclave of Nakhichevan through Armenia.
He said the main negotiations on the initiative were being conducted between Armenia and the United States, while U.S. officials regularly briefed Azerbaijan. But he said the project could not be implemented without Azerbaijani participation and added that he had been told work was continuing, with the start of physical construction postponed until 2027.
“The sooner this project is implemented, the better,” Bayramov said, adding that it would benefit Azerbaijan, Armenia and other countries in the region.
He also said restoration of railways in Nakhichevan had begun and that international partners were interested in participating.
On September 8, U.S. Chargé d’Affaires in Armenia David Allen met in Baku with Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Elnur Mammadov. The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said the meeting, also attended by U.S. Chargé d’Affaires in Azerbaijan Amy Carlon, focused on normalization between Armenia and Azerbaijan, regional peace and implementation of the TRIPP project.
Earlier, on September 3, a joint Armenian-U.S. delegation visited Armenia’s Syunik province to discuss TRIPP and regional economic opportunities with local communities.