ArmInfo.Answers have been found to most of the problematic points in the draft peace agreement with Azerbaijan, so the statement of the RA Ministry of Foreign Affairs on this matter is true. This opinion was expressed by its speaker Alen Simonyan in a conversation with journalists on the sidelines of the RA National Assembly.
"As I said at the end of last year, if there is political will, a peace treaty can be signed tomorrow," Simonyan said, noting with regret that as soon as the negotiating parties come to a consensus on a particular issue, the President of Azerbaijan begins "beat this process."
"For example, Aliyev began to talk about Khojaly, but then it would be correct to talk about the Sumgayit pogroms, and about the pogroms in Baku - about this Genocide. If we are moving towards peace, then the side that strives for peace must pay special attention to those open spaces that can hinder the peace process," Simonyan said. According to him, torpedoing such topics for a country that wants to be a partner of the civilized world, which does not want to complain that European countries criticize it, is not the right position. This country must release its political prisoners and Armenian prisoners of war. She must free the non-military man Sujyan, who was literally kidnapped on the Azerbaijani-Armenian border, whose life and health are under threat. (We are talking about Gevorg Sujyan, a humanitarian mission worker in Nagorno- Karabakh, whom the AR authorities accused of espionage and sentenced to 15 years in prison in July 2021 - Ed.) In this context, Simonyan noted that by its behavior at the negotiating table, Baku talks about peace, and then itself torpedoes the process. <But this does not mean at all that Armenia will not continue the peace process will follow the same road, to which there is no alternative. "We will lead the process towards peace and the presence of specific borders," said the speaker of the Armenian parliament.
At the same time, Simonyan stated that Armenia is ready to open all roads and communications that are beneficial to Azerbaijan, answering a question about delegating control over the road between mainland Azerbaijan and Nakhichevan to a third party or an international organization. "The peace treaty says nothing about this. We discussed this in 2020, but a lot has changed, and a separate structure has been created in the NSS that is capable of taking on this function," Simonyan noted.