TASS was quoting Armenia's foreign minister.

The two countries have in recent weeks stated their willingness to sign a treaty to end decades of intermittent conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, a breakaway region that Azerbaijan recaptured last month, prompting most of its population of some 120,000 ethnic Armenians to flee to Armenia.

(Reporting by Reuters; Writing by Alexander Marrow; Editing by Gareth Jones)