Pashinyan: Armenia has not yet received answers to its peace treaty proposal from Azerbaijan

YEREVAN, March 1. /ARKA/. Armenia has not yet received answers to a draft peace treaty it sent to Baku earlier this year, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said during a government Q&A session in parliament today.

"When we receive their answer, it will take some time to prepare a response and I guess there will be a reaction after some time. I would like to inform that during this period there were three stages of work around the draft peace treaty: first Azerbaijan put forward its proposal, we responded, and this was done three times - work in this direction should go on," Pashinyan said.

Azerbaijani peace proposals unveiled last year include a set of fundamental principles on which it wants the future peace accord with Armenia to be based, such as mutual recognition of each other’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, mutual reaffirmation of the absence of territorial claims to each other and a legally binding obligation not to make such claims in the future, abstaining from threatening each other’s security, demarcation of the border and unblocking of transport links.

"Those proposals that we made earlier regarding opening communications, ensuring border security and border demarcation - they all continue to be in force," Pashinyan said.

Earlier Pashinyan said that Armenia handed over a new version of the peace treaty with its proposals to Azerbaijan. Pashinyan said also he was ready to sign the document as soon as possible, which would become a guarantee of lasting peace and stability in the region. -0-