Thursday, October 26 2023 17:55

ArmInfo. Yerevan hopes to sign an Agreement on Peace and Establishment of Relations with Baku in the  coming months. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced in his speech at the 4th Tbilisi Silk Road Forum.

Pashinyan recalled that work is currently underway on a draft  agreement on peace and establishing relations with Azerbaijan. In  this regard, he pointed to two important principles of peace, on  which agreement was reached with Azerbaijan.

Thus, Armenia and Azerbaijan mutually recognize each other's  territorial integrity with Armenia's territory recorded as 29.000  square kilometers, and Azerbaijan's 86,600 square kilometers. "This  encyclopedic record was made so that the statements made by Armenia  and Azerbaijan about recognizing each other's territorial integrity  leave no room for statements that by recognizing the territorial  integrity of the given country, the opposite country means only a  part of its internationally recognized territory," he explained.

The next principle is that Armenia and Azerbaijan agree to delimit  the border on the basis of the 1991 Alma-Ata Declaration. "The key  meaning of the Alma-Ata Declaration is the following: the Soviet  Union ceases to exist, and the 12 republics that signed the  Declaration, including Armenia and Azerbaijan, recognize the  territorial integrity, sovereignty of each other, the inviolability  of existing, that is, administrative borders, and consequently, the  administrative borders existing between the republics of the Soviet  Union become state borders. As I have already said, we hope, based on  these principles, to sign an Agreement on Peace and Establishment of  Relations with Azerbaijan in the coming months", he noted

In addition, Pashinyan hopes to soon record progress towards opening  the border between Armenia and Turkey for citizens of third countries  and persons with diplomatic passports, which will also be a positive  impetus for the entire region.