Moscow suggests asking Baku`s position regarding Yerevan`s proposal  to sign non-aggression pact

ArmInfo.Moscow suggested asking Baku for its position regarding Yerevan's proposal to sign a  non-aggression pact.

Thus, on January 31, during a weekly briefing, Russian Foreign  Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova, when asked how Moscow sees  Yerevan's proposal to sign a non-aggression pact with Azerbaijan and  and to what extent the pact is equivalent to a peace treaty, in  particular, said: " You have clearly formulated the proposal, which  was sent directly from Yerevan to the Azerbaijani side. It seems to  me that it is the Azerbaijani side to whom the question should be  addressed."

At the same time, the Russian diplomat recalled her principled  position on the issue of normalizing relations between Baku and  Yerevan. "If you are talking about our principled position, then we  are confident that the best guarantee of establishing stability and  sustainable long-term peace in the South Caucasus is the speedy  restoration of the implementation of a set of trilateral agreements  at the highest level that were concluded between 2020 and 2022. This  is a non-alternative road a map of reconciliation between Baku and  Yerevan. It includes, among other things, the development of a peace  treaty," Zakharova summed up.

RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, speaking at a gala event on  January 28 on the occasion of the 32nd anniversary of the creation of  the country's Armed Forces, said that Yerevan proposed to Azerbaijan  the demilitarization of the border, Also a mutual arms control  mechanism, also the signing of a non-aggression pact if it turns out  that signing a peace treaty will take longer than expected.