Azerbaijan Softens Stance On Zangezur Corridor As Peace Deal Nears

Over the past week Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and other Armenian officials have been hinting that a peace deal with Azerbaijan could be imminent.  They say the sides have reached agreement on three core principles of a deal while "details" remain to be settled. Pashinyan told parliament on October 30 that a peace deal is "realistic" if the sides remain faithful to the principles of mutual recognition of territorial integrity, delimitation/demarcation of the shared border based on the 1991 Almaty declaration and the opening of transport…