Oct. 5 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinian, has announced before Parliament that he will attend a quadrilateral meeting with the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, and the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, during a summit meeting of the European Union in Prague.
In this sense, he has also reported that he will hold a meeting with the Turkish president, Recep Tayyp Erdogan, in a series of contacts aimed at resuming the peace negotiations between the parties to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
“I confirm that we have adopted a peace agenda,” he said before Parliament, adding that he expects the support of the parliamentary majority and the people to implement that agenda, since he is moving “on that path,” according to the agency. armenpress state news agency.
For his part, the Armenian Foreign Minister, Ararat Mirzoyan, said during the parliamentary session that the five negotiating points presented by Azerbaijan at the end of March are not “unacceptable” for Armenia.
“There will be things that will again be acceptable to us, and there will be things that will not be acceptable. There will be our proposals that we will propose to include. In other words, a normal process of negotiation will continue,” he said.
Among other requests, Azerbaijan has requested the establishment of a corridor through Armenian territory known as the Zangezur Corridor, as well as the opening of an investigation to determine the fate of the missing Azerbaijani soldiers.
Likewise, as part of the draft text, Baku has requested the recognition of the Nagorno-Karabakh territory as part of the country, the dissolution of the Defense Army of that region, as well as a process of delimiting the borders according to the 1920 maps.
On the Azeri side, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry has issued a statement confirming that a telephone conversation between the parties took place on October 4 at the initiative of the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken.
This rapprochement occurs after several previous meetings between the parties, the last being the one in Geneva on October 2 with the aim of drafting a peace treaty as a result of previous talks that took place in Brussels, on October 21. August, as well as another meeting on September 19 on the sidelines of the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly.
Tuesday’s three-way call between Blinken and the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Ararat Mirzoyan and Jeyhun Bayramov, respectively, highlighted “the expectation about the continuation of negotiations on the text containing the elements of the peace treaty proposed by Azerbaijan during the Geneva meeting”.
“Bayramov once again emphasized Azerbaijan’s commitment to ensuring peace and stability in the region and readiness to sign a peace treaty. At the same time, the minister noted that in the post-conflict period work will continue in the direction of the reintegration of the population of Armenian origin living in the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan,” the Azeri side stressed.
The governments of Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to a ceasefire in mid-September after the latest clashes on the border, which left more than 200 soldiers dead on both sides.
The fighting is the most serious since 2020, when they clashed over control of Nagorno-Karabakh, a territory with a majority Armenian population that has been a focus of conflict since it decided to separate in 1988 from the Azerbaijan region integrated into the Soviet Union.
