Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev are due to meet this Sunday, May 14 in Brussels. The meeting is at the invitation of Charles Michel, the President of the European Council.

Optimists want to see it as a sign of the willingness of both sides to conclude a peace that would end more than three decades of conflict. Never in 30 years has peace seemed so close. But this comes with the impression that war may just as well resume any moment.