Yerevan to receive Baku's response to its peace treaty proposals within weeks - Deputy Foreign Minister

YEREVAN, January 29. /ARKA/. Armenia will receive Azerbaijan's response to its peace treaty proposals within a few weeks, Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Vahan Kostanyan said today.

"We continue to be sincerely interested in the full normalization of relations with our neighbors and in the signing of a peace treaty," he told reporters.

Kostanyan recalled that the Armenian side sent its version of the peace treaty text to the opposite party on January 4 and is now waiting for Azerbaijan's response.

"Yesterday, statements were made in Baku that the response will come within a few weeks," he said.

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on January 28 that Armenia offered Azerbaijan a mechanism of mutual arms control and signing of a non-aggression pact if it turns out that signing a peace treaty will take longer than expected.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said earlier that Yerevan and Baku had agreed on 3 main principles that can contribute to the establishment of peace. These are mutual recognition by Armenia and Azerbaijan of each other's territorial integrity, demarcation and delimitation of the state border on the basis of the Alma-Ata Declaration and opening of all roads on the basis of mutual respect for sovereignty, jurisdiction and legislation of the countries.

Earlier this month Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev renewed demands for an extraterritorial corridor to the Nakhichevan exclave through Armenian southern region of Syunik bordering Iran. Aliyev argues that people and cargo transported to and from Nakhichevan through Armenia’s Syunik province must be exempt from Armenian border checks, which is strongly rejected by Yerevan.

Azerbaijan also rejects Yerevan’s proposal to delimit the Armenian-Azerbaijani border based on maps from the 1970 sand refuses to withdraw Azerbaijani troops from Armenia's sovereign territories occupied between May 2021 and September. -0-