Armenian PM Pashinyan briefs Putin on draft peace deal with Azerbaijan

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan briefed Russian President Vladimir Putin on a finalized draft peace agreement with Azerbaijan in a phone call, the Armenian government said on Friday.

Armenian and Azerbaijani officials said on Thursday that they had agreed the text of a peace agreement to end nearly four decades of conflict between the South Caucasus countries, a sudden breakthrough in a fitful and often bitter peace process.