Azerbaijan said Thursday that it had wrapped up peace talks with Armenia aimed to resolve the Caucasus neighbours' decades-long conflict, with the sides agreeing on the text of a possible treaty.
Baku and Yerevan fought two wars for control of Azerbaijan's Armenian-populated region of Karabakh at the end of the Soviet Union and again in 2020, before Azerbaijan seized the entire area in a 24-hour offensive in September 2023.
Both countries have repeatedly said a comprehensive peace deal to end their long-standing animosity is within reach but talks had failed to achieve a breakthrough.
"The negotiation process on the text of the peace agreement with Armenia has been concluded," Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov told reporters.
He said "Armenia has accepted Azerbaijan's proposals on the two previously unresolved articles of the peace treaty."
In late January, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said that out of 17 points in the draft peace agreement, two remained unresolved.
Armenia's Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said in a speech to parliament on Wednesday that two points were unresolved.
There was no immediate response from Yerevan on Thursday to Baku's claims of a draft deal. The foreign ministry told AFP a statement would be made later.
Azerbaijan's Bayramov also said that its "next expectation from Armenia is constitutional amendments," reiterating Baku's demand to remove from Armenia's constitution a reference to its declaration of independence, which asserts territorial claims over Karabakh.
Nearly all ethnic Armenians -- more than 100,000 people -- fled Karabakh after its takeover by Baku.
In what was seen as the first major step toward normalisation, Yerevan has recognised Baku's sovereignty over Karabakh after three decades of Armenian separatist rule.
And last year, Pashinyan returned to Azerbaijan control over four border villages that Armenia had seized decades earlier.
Russia, the United States and the European Union have all tried to play a role at various times in mediating the conflict.