Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan speaks during a United Nations Security Council meeting on Nagorno-Karabakh, at UN headquarters in New York City on September 21, 2023. Azerbaijan and Armenian separatists from the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh held their first direct peace talks on September 21, after Baku claimed to have regained control over the breakaway region in a lightning military operation. (Photo by Bryan R. Smith / AFP)