President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan held a meeting in Brussels with the mediation of the President of the European Council, Charles Michel.

 This is reported by "Echo of the Caucasus".

 The leaders' meeting lasted four hours in a closed format. This is already the fifth meeting after the last war between Azerbaijan and Armenia.

 The press service of the government of Armenia reported that issues of release of prisoners and clarification of the fate of missing persons, demarcation of borders and support of border security, problems of Nagorno-Karabakh were discussed.

 The press service of the President of Azerbaijan limited himself to reporting the fact of the meeting.

 According to sources, there is allegedly an agreement to continue negotiations at the level of heads of foreign affairs regarding the development of a draft peace treaty.

 "Radio Azatutyun" reports that the meeting of the foreign ministers should take place within a month, and the commission on the delimitation of state borders will meet in November, also in Brussels. The next meeting between Pashinyan and Aliyev is scheduled for November.

 Official Yerevan does not clarify whether the meeting discussed the creation of a working group to prepare the text of the future peace agreement - as announced a few days ago by an assistant to the President of Azerbaijan.

 It is also not known for sure on what principles the negotiations will take place - Baku has five principled positions, Yerevan - six. In particular, it is not clear what status of Nagorno-Karabakh Armenia is ready to agree to - in Yerevan, they note only that the fundamental issue is safety and respect for the rights and freedoms of Armenians in the unrecognized Artsas and determination of its final status.

 At the same time, Moscow insists that substantive negotiations between Azerbaijan and Armenia are allegedly conducted with the help of Russia, not Brussels.

 A day before the meeting between Aliyev and Pashinyan, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Maria Zakharova, called the negotiations in Brussels "a pseudo-initiative of the Europeans, which is worthless" with the aim of "shamelessly appropriating the laurels of mediation."