Baku -Yerevan intensive negotiations resumed since Feb, Bayramov  says

ArmInfo. The recent positive development between Azerbaijan and Armenia can be called a historical  result, Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov said at a joint press conference with Ian Borg, OSCE Chair-in-Office, Minister for Foreign and European Affairs and Trade of the Republic of Malta, APA  reports.

""The biggest result of this is that this process was implemented through direct negotiations between the two states, in a political-diplomatic way," the minister added.

He also emphasized that another effect of this process is that it is  a signal to obtain serious achievements in this direction: "We hope  that things will continue in a positive direction."

Speaking about the negotiation process around the peace treaty,  Bayramov said that intensive negotiations had resumed since February.

"Before this, documents and conditions were exchanged, but there was  no face-to-face meeting. Although the process continued with meetings  in Munich, Berlin and Almaty. Following the results of the last  meeting, a lot of discussion was held. Although I don't want to go  into details, I assess these negotiations positively,"  he said, APA  reports.

Bayramov noted that expectations must be appropriate and realistic:  "This is a very complex and necessary process. A peace treaty must be  fair, based on international law, an agreement that excludes points  that in the future may contribute to bringing up any controversial  issues for discussion. Also, of course, the expectations of the  opposite side are taken into account, we are working on mutual ways  for a mutual solution. The negotiations in Almaty were the next step.  Whether this is a big or small step, we will only know at the end of  the process. But I will say that this is an important part of the  process. As we stated during the press conference,  the parties  reached an agreement to continue negotiations. I think we will  witness this in the near future."

On May 10-11, negotiations between the Foreign Ministers of Armenia  and Azerbaijan Ararat Mirzoyan and Jeyhun Bayramov took place in  Almaty (Kazakhstan).

As the press service of the Armenian Foreign Ministry reported  following the negotiations, the ministers welcomed the progress on  delimitation, as well as the agreements reached in this direction.  They continued discussing the provisions of the draft bilateral  Agreement on the establishment of peace and interstate relations  between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

The parties agreed to continue negotiations on issues where there are  still disagreements.