"We have reached a compromise": Pashinyan presents last two points of peace treaty between Armenia and Azerbaijan
YEREVAN, March 13. /ARКА/. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan disclosed today two points of the peace treaty with Azerbaijan, on which the parties could not come to an agreement for some time and on which they reached a compromise.
Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said in early December last year that Armenia and Azerbaijan had made some progress in signing the peace agreement, noting that the parties had already agreed on 15 out of 17 articles of the preamble and the draft agreement, and with sufficient political will, it could be quickly finalized and signed.
Pashinyan reiterated today that one of the points is about the non-deployment of third-country forces along the entire length of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, and the second is about the mutual withdrawal of claims filed against each other in international courts.
He noted that these provisions have undergone a slight evolution during the negotiations.
"After it became clear that we cannot and will not have ideal formulations in this sense, we also held consultations in the Security Council format and came to the conclusion that the current content can be considered as an option for mutual concessions that can be acceptable and, in fact, are acceptable to Armenia in the given circumstances," Pashinyan said.
Asked if these are the concessions of Armenia, what are then the concessions of Azerbaijan, the prime minister said that at this stage it is very important not to make unilateral statements
"If an agreement has been reached, it means that the Azerbaijani side considered that this text is beneficial to it in a certain sense, and Armenia decided that it is also beneficial to it. These are the compromises that we have publicly spoken about. Yes, we made a decision because we believe that this is a compromise text... A peace treaty does not imply any other genre," Pashinyan said.
Earlier, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev stated that one of the disagreements concerned the non-deployment of third-country forces on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, and the other was the withdrawal of lawsuits filed against each other in international courts. -0-
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