 Azerbaijan and Armenia agree to seek compromise in conflict. Armenian Security Council Secretary Armen Grigoryan and Hikmet Hajiyev, head of the Foreign Policy Department of the Azerbaijani Presidential Administration, met in Brussels and agreed to take specific actions and resolute steps toward a compromise for a universal peace between the two countries. The talks came ahead of a meeting between the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan slated for October 5 in Grenada, Spain. The special representatives of Armenia and Azerbaijan, met after Baku, halted its anti-terrorism operation in Karabakh. At the meeting, Hajiyev, who is also Foreign Policy Advisor to the Azerbaijani President, presented Baku's plans to provide humanitarian assistance and ensure the security of locals and shared his country's vision of the future of the ethnic Armenian population in Karabakh. The EU officials, who were present at the meeting, stressed the need to give international humanitarian and human rights organizations access to the region. Apart from that, the two sides coordinated issues and agreed on the parameters of coming negotiations between the two countries' leaders, including the delimination and demarcation of the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the humanitarian situation in the region and the signing of a peace agreement. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan last met in Brussels in mid-July, but they failed to reach any agreement at the time. Now Baku and Yerevan can du jour recognize each other's territorial integrity, which will enable them to launch substantive negotiations on other disputed issues, said Niyazi Niyazov, an expert in South Caucasus military security. Although it is too early to say whether a peace agreement will be signed or the relations between the two neighbors will be brought back to normal, regional processes will allow the two sides to restart bilateral economic relations. Niyazov continued, however, he fears that Armenia's move to gradually distance itself from Russia may be the flip side of any normalization between Yerevan and Baku.