Pashinyan: 80% of the peace treaty with Baku has been agreed upon and we are ready to sign it

According to RCO News Agency, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan today (Tuesday) at the Yerevan Dialogue international forum, called it an important platform for discussing international and regional agenda issues, sharing thoughts and ideas.

He said, “In particular, I want to address the question that is of most concern to this audience; Is lasting and permanent 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 point 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 points. I must mention 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 current results of the draft peace treaty, 13 articles and the preamble of the draft have been fully agreed. The other 3 articles include 2 sentences that have been agreed to a certain extent. One of the sentences of that article is agreed and the other is not.

The Prime Minister of Armenia emphasized: “Considering that the agreed provisions include all or the most key provisions for establishing relations at the international level, Yerevan suggests that we sign what has already been agreed, have a basic document, and then talk about the rest. Let’s continue the discussion. Especially since one of the agreed articles of the peace agreement includes a mechanism that enables both sides to continue talks through a common mechanism. It goes without saying that the agreed part of the peace treaty includes provisions for the establishment 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 agreement and establish relations as soon as possible.”

According to Pashinyan, the next important issue is the process of determining the borders, in which there is a significant change. He added: “This change is expressed by the fact that the relevant commissions of Armenia and Azerbaijan recently signed the regulation of the joint 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 internally. I am sure that in Armenia, we will do everything about it. The government accepted this program and sent it to the Criminal Council for the approval of the constitution.

Pashinyan’s statements come in the context 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 continue to discuss unresolved issues.

“Aikhan Hajizadeh,” the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan, in response to the statements 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 presentation of a draft peace agreement 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 presented to the Republic of Azerbaijan includes fully agreed articles or parts of the agreed articles, and there are no disagreements 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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