Canada alone in a group 7 with an invitation to release prisoners such as Armenia, Azerbaijan in peace talks

The federal government calls for the release of Armenian detainees and war prisoners in Azerbaijan, where they praised the way to peace with his assumption of a meeting with the White House last week between the two countries who have been detained for decades of conflict.

“By creating the peace agreement and recognition of Armenia and Azerbaijan sovereignty and regional integrity, I have taken important steps towards a fair and lasting peace for the people of this region,” Minister of Foreign Affairs Anita Anand said in a statement published on social media on Sunday night.

However, I also noticed remaining issues, including “the launch of all Armenian detainees and prisoners of war, the safe and generous right to the return of Armenian civilians and the preservation of cultural heritage.”

Anand again confirmed Canada’s commitment to a “negotiating political solution” to the fate of Nagorno Karabakh.

The mountainous region was recognized internationally as Azerbaijan, but it was mostly inhabited by the ethnic Armenians even two years ago, and it was ruled by an effective Armenian ethnic government for nearly three decades.

Armenia and Azerbaijan have fought two major wars to the region since the early 1990s. The latter eventually prevailed in a military attack in September 2023 that witnessed migration from about 120,000 ethnic Armenians to Armenia, a move described as “ethnic cleansing” by Armenia at that time, as well as others like the Canadian ambassador to the United Nations Bob Ray and Freedom of NGOs in a report last year.

The agreement avoids the prisoner issue

Armenia Prime Minister Nicole Pashinyan and President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev met in the Oval Office with US President Donald Trump on Friday, as they signed a peace agreement that would strengthen bilateral economic relations and move them towards a complete normalization of their relations, if so.

On Monday, the two countries published an article 17 of the Convention, which focuses largely on respecting the regional integrity of each other.

The Armenian media is documenting the prison and the trials of the Armenian war prisoners in the Azerbaijan justice system, including those of soldiers who fought in a 44 -day war against Nagorno Karabach in 2020, and the political leadership of the former Republic of Al -Jib.

The data published by the Allies of the Seven Group in Canada did not mention any person or the right to return the residents of Nagorno Karabak The right of refugees to return in October 2023Signed at the time by the list of countries including Canada, France and the United States

“These are issues that cannot be passed under the carpet,” Kyle Matthews, CEO of the Montreal Institute for Global Thinking said.

“The Armenian government is risking here and needs to find the right balance in order to support the Armenian population (the agreement).”

He said it could consume the remaining G7 war of Ukraine’s continuous war to play close attention to the South Caucasus deal. But he hopes that European countries will raise these issues separately.

Europe has links to the Caucasus. The European Union’s Civil Union’s mission in Armenia, which includes a Canadian delegate, has patrolled in the border area between Armenia and Azerbaijan since 2023.

The oil -rich Azerbaijan is a European Union supplier, with the British gas giant BP main investor.

Trump asked the Prime Minister if the prisoners were “important”

Pashinian recently said in March that he brought the ordeal of prisoners in all negotiations with Azerbaijan.

Excerpts from footage of the Oval Office meeting on Friday made social media, indicating that Trump asks the Armenian Prime Minister about “23 Christians” held in Azerbaijan.

Then the US president says he will ask Azerbaijan to release them. “This is important if he could, right?” He asks, as is the gestures of Bashinian.

The agreement gives exclusive development rights in the United States to a strategic transit pass on Armenia.

It would connect Azerbaijan to the independent Nakhchivan inclusion that also limits Türkiye, and is the traditional ally of Azerbaijan.

Azerbaijan has submitted claims to the corridor for years, from the above hostile tours. But the agreement says it will remain part of Armenia, with the Earth’s rent to the United States