Parliament Vice Speaker highlights importance of meeting of Azerbaijani, Armenian PMs in Tbilisi
Talakvadze noted the development was “once again” returning Georgia to a “historical role” that was “important for our region”. Photo: Archil Talakvadze's Facebook
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Archil Talakvadze, the Georgian Parliament’s Vice Speaker, on Sunday highlighted the importance of the meeting of the prime ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia on the sidelines of the Tbilisi Silk Road Forum last week.
In an interview with Imedi TV, Talakvadze noted the development was “once again” returning Georgia to a “historical role” that was “important for our region”.
It is very important that after the proposal of the [Georgian] Prime Minister, Azerbaijan and Armenia used the Georgian space and the negotiation table that we offered for an agreement that is important for achieving long-term peace in the region”, Talakvadze said.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Friday highlighted hosting Ali Asadov and Nikol Pashinyan at the Forum, and noted he was “glad” to host the officials.
Their discussions covered the “future of the South Caucasus” and “large-scale” regional projects in the “common interests” of the states of the region.
Nikoloz Samkharadze, the Chair of the Foreign Relations Committee in the Georgian Parliament, on Friday said Tbilisi had “great desire” for the “friendly and neighbouring” countries of Armenia and Azerbaijan to sign a peace deal in their long-running conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Friday said Tbilisi, as an “impartial mediator” between the neighbouring Azerbaijan and Armenia in their long-running conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, was interested in ensuring a “lasting peace” in the South Caucasus.
Dritan Abazović, the Prime Minister of Montenegro, on Thursday congratulated his Georgian counterpart Irakli Garibashvili for bringing together the Prime Ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia at the Tbilisi Silk Road Forum.
Nikol Pashinyan, the Armenian Prime Minister, highlighted the importance of peace at the ongoing Tbilisi Silk Road Forum by stressing it would be “very complicated to build any bridge” without it, and adding the South Caucasus region was in need of a “lasting peace”.