•Armenia could face a war with Azerbaijan if it does not compromise with Baku and return four Azerbaijani villages it has held since the early 1990s, Armenia PM Nikol Pashinyan said.
• A six-week war in 2020 resulted in Azerbaijan retaking large parts of the breakaway region.
•Armenia suffered a major defeat in September 2023 when Azerbaijan’s forces retook Nagorno-Karabakh in a lightning offensive, prompting region’s estimated 100,000 ethnic Armenians to flee to Armenia.
•Pashinyan has signalled that he is willing to return Azerbaijani land controlled by Armenia, and suggested rerouting Armenia’s road network to avoid Azerbaijani territory.
•Mainly Muslim Azerbaijan also continues to control areas internationally recognised as part of Christian Armenia.
•Negotiations are mediated by Russian forces.