Armenian Foreign Minister: Yerevan is considering Baku's counter proposals on a peace agreement

Armenia and Azerbaijan continue steps towards a diplomatic settlement of the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh and the conclusion of an intercountry peace treaty. Earlier, the next round of trilateral talks with the participation of Russia was to be held in Moscow in December last year, but Yerevan canceled it, referring to the situation with the blocking of the Lachin corridor.

At the same time, the Armenian government sent its proposals to the leadership of Azerbaijan on a peace agreement between the countries and has already received a response to it. This was announced by Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan at a press conference after a meeting with German Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock. The head of the Armenian diplomatic department noted that despite the cancellation of the meeting in Moscow, Yerevan and Baku continue to work on settling disputed issues.

We were supposed to meet in Moscow with the foreign ministers of Russia and Azerbaijan, but due to the blockade of the Lachin corridor, the Armenian side postponed its participation. But despite this, we conveyed our proposals to the Azerbaijani side and recently received a response and new proposals on a peace treaty from Baku

- said the head of the Armenian Foreign Ministry, adding that the country's leadership will carefully study the proposals of Azerbaijan.

According to Mirzoyan, negotiations to conclude a peace treaty are not going well, including because of the Armenophobia present in the socio-political situation in Azerbaijan. An agreement is hampered by Baku's aggressive actions in Nagorno-Karabakh, the occupation of part of this territory by the Azerbaijani military and the resulting humanitarian crisis among the inhabitants of the region. However, the minister stressed, the Armenian side is resolute in advancing the peace agenda and intends to redouble efforts to establish long-term peace in the region.

At the end of January, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov phoned his Azerbaijani counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov. During the conversation, the parties discussed the possibility of resuming tripartite negotiations mediated by Moscow on a draft peace treaty between Armenia and Azerbaijan. In early February, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, in talks with the head of the Russian cabinet of ministers, Mikhail Mishustin, called Russia a key security partner for Yerevan.

Comments

[voice of reason]

To bargain well in negotiations, you must win on the battlefield. No other way. Otherwise, no international community will help. and in order to win on the battlefield, you need to invest a lot of money in the army, and not in the arms trade ....

[withoutreverse]

"and the conclusion of an intercountry peace treaty"

I have never heard of this

[Romanovski]

And Russia in words is always for peace and friendship in the Transcaucasus, but in reality it is actively selling weapons to all parties to the conflict ???

[Rodimtsev]

So they want the Russians to fight for them, to agree, and they favorably accepted the proud macaws.

[igorbrsv]

Armenia is a member of the CSTO. I don't know about Azerbaijan. If not, then Russia is obliged to support Armenia. But Russia will push Azerbaijan into the clutches of the West. But Kazakhstan and Belarus could intervene in this conflict. Then Russia could take a wait-and-see attitude and take on the role of a peacemaker-negotiator

[solar]

The achievement of an agreement is hampered by the aggressive actions of Baku in Nagorno-Karabakh, the occupation of part of this territory by the Azerbaijani military

And that Armenia recognized that Nagorno-Karabakh is an independent state, and not part of Azerbaijan? If part of Azerbaijan, then what kind of occupation are we talking about?

[Seal]

Armenia is a member of the CSTO. I don't know about Azerbaijan. If not, then Russia is obliged to support Armenia.

At the start of the conflict, both countries were parties to the Collective Security Treaty.
For good, they (both of these countries) could not be accepted into a defensive alliance, since they were at war with each other. Especially Armenia, which is the aggressor in this conflict, having occupied about 1994% of the territory of Azerbaijan by 20.
But first, Armenia got into the Treaty, apparently believing that by doing so it would be able to avoid the need to conclude a peace treaty with Azerbaijan. But the trick failed, because in the summer of 1993 G. Aliyev became the speaker of the Supreme Council of Azerbaijan. And on September 24, 1993, Azerbaijan also became a member of the Collective Security Treaty.
As a result, when in 1994 everything was ratified and the creation of a new defensive alliance was officially announced, both Azerbaijan and Armenia were members of it.
But the main thing is that the CSTO does not help the aggressors. Even if the aggressor is a CSTO member country. Therefore, in the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, we are not at all obliged to help Armenia. Moreover, since 22.02.2022 Azerbaijan has become our official ally. And before that, since 03.07.2088/XNUMX/XNUMX Azerbaijan has been (and continues to be) our strategic partner.