Azerbaijan president, Armenia PM meet top EU official

European Council president Charles Michel on Wednesday met Armenian Prime Minister NikolPashinyan and Azerbaijan's President IlhamAliyev to lay the groundwork for peace talks to end the decades-long conflict over the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh.Armenia and Azerbaijan have been locked in a decades-old dispute over the separatist area, which lies within Azerbaijan and had been under the control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by Armenia since a separatist war there ended in 1994.But a six-week war in 2020 that left more than 6,600 people dead ended with Azerbaijan reclaiming control over large parts of Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding areas that the Armenia-backed separatists controlled.