Pashinyan: 80% of the peace treaty with Baku has been agreed upon and we are ready to sign it
Pashinyan said that lasting peace in the South Caucasus is not only possible, but also realistic. . “I declare my readiness to sign the text of the peace agreeme and establish relations with Baku as soon as possible.”
According to RCO News Agency, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan today (Tuesday) at the Yerevan Dialogue iernational forum, called it an importa platform for discussing iernational and regional agenda issues, sharing thoughts and ideas.
He said, “In particular, I wa to address the question that is of most concern to this audience; Is lasting and permane peace in the South Caucasus region possible and is it realistic? This is a question that should not be answered by Armenia alone. I will try to answer this question from our side and express Armenia’s poi of view.”
“Sustainable peace in the South Caucasus is not only possible, but realistic,” Pashinyan said. Now I will try to justify my position with some key pois. I must meion the peace treaty negotiations between Armenia and Azerbaijan.”
He added: “You have heard a lot that 80% of the draft peace treaty has been agreed upon. Based on the curre results of the draft peace treaty, 13 articles and the preamble of the draft have been fully agreed. The other 3 articles include 2 seences that have been agreed to a certain exte. One of the seences of that article is agreed and the other is not.
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The Prime Minister of Armenia emphasized: “Considering that the agreed provisions include all or the most key provisions for establishing relations at the iernational level, Yerevan suggests that we sign what has already been agreed, have a basic docume, and then talk about the rest. Let’s coinue the discussion. Especially since one of the agreed articles of the peace agreeme includes a mechanism that enables both sides to coinue talks through a common mechanism. It goes without saying that the agreed part of the peace treaty includes provisions for the establishme of diplomatic relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Therefore, we can go for such solutions. “We have made that proposal publicly and officially, and I declare my readiness to sign the text of the peace agreeme and establish relations as soon as possible.”
According to Pashinyan, the next importa issue is the process of determining the borders, in which there is a significa change. He added: “This change is expressed by the fact that the releva commissions of Armenia and Azerbaijan recely signed the regulation of the joi activity of the border delimitation commissions.”
According to the News.AM report, the Prime Minister of Armenia added: “What the parties announced in the message of April 19 is recorded in that regulation. In other words, the Almaty Declaration is recorded as the basic principle of the delimitation process and it is recorded that the parties will be guided by that declaration in the process of delimitation. Now this regulation is being harmonized iernally. I am sure that in Armenia, we will do everything about it. The governme accepted this program and se it to the Criminal Council for the approval of the constitution.
Pashinyan’s statemes come in the coext that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan has previously opposed Armenia’s proposal to sign a peace treaty based on the previously agreed provisions, and at the same time said that it will coinue to discuss unresolved issues.
“Aikhan Hajizadeh,” the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan, in response to the statemes of the Armenian Foreign Minister, said that this proposal is not acceptable to them. He emphasized that the peace treaty can only be signed when all provisions are agreed upon.
Earlier, on Monday, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia announced the preseation of a draft peace agreeme to the Republic of Azerbaijan. According to Ararat Mirzoyan, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, Yerevan and Baku fully agreed on 13 of the 16 articles of the peace treaty.
According to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, the latest text of the peace treaty proposals preseed to the Republic of Azerbaijan includes fully agreed articles or parts of the agreed articles, and there are no disagreemes in the text of these proposals. Mirzoyan said: “Our approach in the negotiation process is to be able to sign the agreed text. The remaining issues may be the subject of further negotiations.”
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