(Reuters) - A senior&nbsp;Armenian official on Sunday said there was a chance that a&nbsp;peace&nbsp;deal&nbsp;could be signed with neighbouring&nbsp;Azerbaijan&nbsp;by the&nbsp;end&nbsp;of 2023,&nbsp;ending a decades-old conflict, Russia's&nbsp;TASS&nbsp;news agency said.
Moscow, Washington and the European Union are all trying separately to help ensure permanent&nbsp;peace&nbsp;between&nbsp;Azerbaijan&nbsp;and&nbsp;Armenia, which have fought two wars in the last 30&nbsp;years over the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.
TASS&nbsp;cited Armen Grigoryan, the secretary of&nbsp;Armenia's Security Council, as telling national television that the negotiations were very intensive.
"If we can maintain this intensity and there is strong support from the international community to achieve progress, then there is a chance to have a&nbsp;peace&nbsp;treaty by the&nbsp;end&nbsp;of the&nbsp;year," he said.
In 2020,&nbsp;Azerbaijan&nbsp;seized control of areas controlled by ethnic&nbsp;Armenians in and around Nagorno-Karabakh. The enclave is internationally recognised as part of&nbsp;Azerbaijan&nbsp;but populated mainly by ethnic&nbsp;Armenians.
Both sides routinely accuse the other of breaking a ceasefire agreed in 2020.
Last week&nbsp;TASS&nbsp;said European Council President Charles Michel,&nbsp;Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and&nbsp;Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev would meet in July.
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(Reporting by David Ljunggren; editing by Grant McCool)

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Armenia says peace deal with Azerbaijan possible by year end -TASS