Mirzoyan: Armenia received new Azerbaijani proposals for peace agreement
YEREVAN, February 7. /ARKA/. Armenia has received new peace proposals from Azerbaijan and is studying them, Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said at a joint news conference with German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock in Berlin on Tuesday, TASS reported.
"We were supposed to meet in Moscow with the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Russia, but due to the blockage of the Lachin corridor (by Azerbaijan), the Armenian side postponed its participation. But despite this, we passed our peace treaty proposals to the Azerbaijani side and the other day we received new proposals for the peace treaty from Baku. We keep working on the text," Mirzoyan said.
The Armenian Foreign Minister said that the work on the peace treaty must continue and it's very important.
Earlier, Mirzoyan reaffirmed Yerevan's readiness to discuss a peace treaty with Azerbaijan. He pointed out that Azerbaijan did not respond to new proposals submitted by the Armenian side more than a month ago.
The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan held two rounds of talks on the peace treaty. The meetings were held on October 6 in Prague and October 31 in Sochi.
On December 12, Azerbaijan effectively cut off access to Nagorno-Karabakh, letting a group of self-described Azerbaijani “eco-activists” with no history of environmental advocacy barge through Russian peacekeepers to block the sole road linking Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia.
Local authorities had to close schools and put 120,000 inhabitants on ration cards as Azerbaijan continues to disrupt gas and electricity supplies amid sub-zero temperatures.
Armenia’s leaders accuse Azerbaijan of seeking to ethnically cleanse Nagorno-Karabakh by starving the local ethnic Armenian population and forcing it to leave.
Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev said in a January 10 TV interview: 'For those (of Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians) who does not want to become Azerbaijani citizen, the road is not closed. They can leave. They can go on their own, or they can ride with Russian peacekeepers, or they can go by bus. The road to Armenia is open.” -0-
