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Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev will meet in Brussels on July15 for a new round of peace talks to be hosted by European Council President Charles Michel.

"On Saturday, July 15, my meeting with the president of the European Council and the Azerbaijani president is scheduled in Brussels," Pashinyan told a cabinet meeting on Thursday.

"I have confirmed my participation in that meeting, I hope to make progress in the peace treaty negotiations during the meeting," he added.

Separately, he addressed the latest International Court of Justice (ICJ) decision reaffirming its order for Azerbaijan to unblock the Lachin Corridor.

"There are some nuanced differences between the court's decisions of February 22 and July 6, because if in February the Government of Azerbaijan said that the environmental protest was not organized by it and it was a spontaneous rally of civil society, now it has no opportunity to say such a thing, because now the Lachin Corridor is already blocked due to the actions of the state structures of Azerbaijan. And therefore, by the decision of the International Court of Justice, the responsibility of the Azerbaijani government for the deepening humanitarian crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh is reaffirmed and further strengthened," Pashinyan said.

"However, Azerbaijan's activity for "environmental protection" continues, and now that country is trying to present environmental accusations to Armenia on an official and unofficial level. Moreover, for this, Azerbaijan attributes mines to Armenia that simply do not exist, raises circumstances that are fictitious, points to decisions that are about something completely different, mentions conventions that are not relevant. The public and private sector organizations of Armenia, of course, point out and will continue to point out the fictitious nature of Azerbaijan's accusations," he added.