Pashinyan: Azerbaijan plans to present territorial claims against Armenia
YEREVAN, August 3. /ARKA/. "Declaring that Azerbaijan has no territorial claims against Armenia, the Azerbaijani president means that the borders between Armenia and Azerbaijan are not determined,' Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said today at a government meeting.
He recalled that the borders between Armenia and Azerbaijan are defined by the 1991 Alma-Ata Declaration and this was confirmed during the October 6, 2022 meeting in Prague that involevd Pashinyan, Aliyev, EU President Charles Michel and French President Emmanuel Macron.
According to Pashinyan, it seems that Azerbaijan's plan is to sign a peace treaty with clauses disputing the Alma-Ata Declaration and later, during the border delimitation and demarcation processes, to make territorial claims against Armenia.
He reaffirmed Armenian government's commitment to the establishment of peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan on the basis of recognizing each other's territorial integrity.
"I would like to note that despite all the difficulties, we do have an opportunity to achieve a lasting and stable peace. I urge Azerbaijan to refrain from steps that would minimize this chance- from torpedoing of the international mechanism for establishing the Stepanakert-Baku dialogue, from preserving the illegal blockade of the Lachin corridor and from arresting the abducted Nagorno-Karabakh resident Vagif Khachatryan, who was being transported to Yerevan through the Lachin corridor under the auspices of the ICRC," Pashinyan said.
He noted that the release of Khachatryan, as well as other Armenian captives, would be an impressive signal of readiness to establish peace.
"As a step of commitment to peace, I call on Azerbaijan to allow the entry of humanitarian cargo from Armenia to Nagorno-Karabakh through the Lachin corridor, especially that preventing the passage of cargo contradicts the trilateral statement and the decision of the International Court of Justice," the prime minister said. -0-
