ArmInfo. The key disagreements that prevented Armenia and Azerbaijan from agreeing on some points of the draft peace treaty at the talks in Washington concern Nagorno- Karabakh, but not only that. Prime Minister of Armenia Pashinyan said in an interview with RFE/RL in Prague.
It should be reminded that on May 1-4, the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan held talks in Arlington, USA. As a result of the meeting, the RA MFA reported that The Ministers and their teams advanced mutual understanding on some articles of the draft bilateral Agreement on Peace and Establishment of Interstate Relations, meanwhile acknowledging that the positions on some key issues remain divergent.
"Although it was recorded in Prague and Sochi that Armenia and Azerbaijan recognize each other's territorial integrity, we are still unable to reach an agreement on the wording of the draft peace treaty that would give us confidence that Azerbaijan recognizes Armenia's 29,800 square kilometers," Pashinyan said.
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When asked which proposal Armenia is guided by: the issue of Artsakh to be suspended and Russian peacekeepers to leave, or the West to provide security guarantees to the Armenians living in Artsakh, Pashinyan said: "Armenia is working on a proposal in which the issue of security and rights of the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh should be discussed on the platform of the Baku-Stepanakert dialogue, which should have a certain international participation, otherwise this topic and agenda may simply be forgotten by Azerbaijan."
At the same time, the Armenian Prime Minister claims that the discussion started in Washington can be continued in Moscow, refuting the assertions that there are Western and Russian proposals that differ from each other.
As Pashinyan noted, approaches were proposed by the West, but not a proposal fixed on paper. , he said.
To a clarifying question: was there such an attempt in Sochi, Pashinyan repeated: "Moscow has not made such an attempt again." , Nikol Pashinyan said.