{"id":8866,"date":"2024-04-19T20:00:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T17:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=8866"},"modified":"2024-04-19T20:00:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T17:00:24","slug":"azerbaijan-says-armenia-agrees-historic-return-of-four-villages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=8866","title":{"rendered":"Azerbaijan says Armenia agrees , \u2018historic\u2019 return of four villages"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/azerbaijan-says-armenia-agrees-historic-return-of-four-villages.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Armenia has agreed to return to Azerbaijan four villages situated on theirshared border, Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesperson Aykhan Hajizada said on Friday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"cypru-video-ads\" id=\"cypru-1904676879\">\n<div id=\"cypru-2013243179\" data-cypru-trackid=\"478051\" data-cypru-trackbid=\"1\" class=\"cypru-target\">\n<div id=\"gpt-ad-4356939802108-0\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hajizada posted on X that the four villages had been held by Armenia since the early 1990s and their return was a \u201clong-awaited historic event\u201d.<br \/>\nArmenia\u2019s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the two countries had reached a preliminary agreement on four sections of their disputed border.<br \/>\nAzerbaijan has said the return of the villages is a necessary precondition for a peace deal to end more than three decades of conflict between the two countries, which were both part of the Soviet Union.<br \/>\nFriday\u2019s agreement, at a meeting chaired by deputy prime ministers of both countries, was the clearest sign yet of progress between the two sides.<br \/>\nAfter two major wars between them, momentum shifted dramatically in favour of Azerbaijan last September when its forces staged a lightning offensive to regain control of the Nagorno-Karabakh region, where ethnic Armenians had enjoyed de facto independence since the mid-1990s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armenia has agreed to return four villages situated on their shared border to Azerbaijan, which had been held by Armenia since the early 1990s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8867,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3038,1134,6138,7129,6432,3,6117,250,3330,6847,1346,3331,4834,3840,1827,3364],"class_list":["post-8866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other","tag-agreement","tag-armenia","tag-azerbaijan","tag-border","tag-conflict","tag-cyprus","tag-event","tag-google","tag-google-news","tag-karabakh","tag-meeting","tag-news","tag-peace","tag-progress","tag-statement","tag-villages"],"acf":{"keyphrase":"","keywords":"","sourceimg":"","country-category":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Azerbaijan says Armenia agrees , \u2018historic\u2019 return of four villages<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Border villages. 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