Armenia will accept Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan subject to rights guarantee - Armenian PM cited

FILE PHOTO: Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan attends a meeting with Russia's Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin in Moscow, Russia April 20, 2022. Sputnik/Dmitry Astakhov/Pool via REUTERS /File Photo

(Reuters) - Armenia is ready to recognise the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave as part of Azerbaijan if Baku guarantees the security of its ethnic Armenian population, the Russian state news agency TASS and the Russian news outlet Ostorozhno, Novosti quoted Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan as saying on Monday.

Nagorno-Karabakh has been a source of conflict between the two Caucasus neighbours since the years leading up to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, and between ethnic Armenians and Turkic Azeris for well over a century.