BERLIN, March 2 -- Armenia and Azerbaijan have agreed to continue peace talks after a new push in Berlin this week to resolve their decades-long conflict, the German foreign ministry said on Friday.

Armenia's Ararat Mirzoyan and Azerbaijan's Jeyhun Bayramov held two days of talks in Berlin hosted by German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, who hailed their "courageous steps" toward a peace agreement.

A German foreign ministry spokeswoman on Friday said the two countries had "a great interest in continuing to clarify outstanding issues together and to meet again for this purpose."

The foreign ministries of Armenia and Azerbaijan had also said in a statement on Thursday that they wished to "continue negotiations on the open issues."

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