Azerbaijan will do everything to disrupt process of concluding peace  agreement with Armenia to launch new aggression against Armenia after  the COP29 - Armenian MP

ArmInfo.The RA NA delegation takes part in the works of the Third Part of the Annual Session of  the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) going on in Strasbourg.

In her speech the Member of the RA NA delegation Arusyak Julhakyan  said:

"Dear colleagues,

While discussing the progress report of the Assembly let me take the  opportunity to tell you about the recent developments in the  normalization process between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

On April 19 this year the commissions of Armenia and Azerbaijan  working on the delimitation of the state border between two countries  reached an important agreement. The parties agreed that the border  delimitation process will be based on the Alma Ata declaration of  1991. Based on this agreement the parties agreed on the separate  sections of the borderline in the northern part of the Armenian-  Azerbaijani border in order to bring them into compliance with the  legally justified inter-republican border that existed within the  Soviet Union at the moment of its dissolution. Since then more than  12 kilometers of the borderline have been delimited and the border  services of both countries were deployed along the agreed sections of  the borderline.

This was indeed a positive and stabilizing step towards the  normalization process. However, 10 days later the Foreign Affairs  Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan met in the symbolic city of Alma  Ata for peace agreement negotiations but no substantial progress was  achieved there as Azerbaijan is reluctant to reflect the already  achieved agreements in the treaty. Furthermore, Azerbaijan came up  with new preconditions declaring that they will be ready to sign the  peace treaty only after Armenia amends its constitution as they argue  that there are territorial claims in its provisions, which is not  true.

Armenia recognizes the territorial integrity and inviolability of the  borders of all its neighbours.  Armenia is loyal to this principle  and does not have any ambitions beyond its internationally recognized  29 thousand 743 square kilometers.

The Constitution of Armenia and the amendments to it are internal  affairs of Armenia, and we consider the attempts by official Baku to  intervene in the internal discussions in Armenia as a gross  intervention into the internal affairs of the country.

Such rhetoric torpedoes the peace process and casts doubts on the  sincerity of the leadership of Azerbaijan to achieve peace.

In addition to the above mentioned recently Azerbaijan started to  periodically disseminate information that Armenia is violating the  ceasefire regime. Azerbaijan does so every time it is going to  initiate another escalation.

On June 15 the Prime Minister of Armenia declared that it is the will  of the Government of the Republic of Armenia not to allow tension and  proposed Azerbaijan to create a bilateral mechanism for investigation  of cases of violations of the ceasefire regime. No answer has been  received from Azerbaijan so far.

Dear colleagues, Azerbaijan's practice of predicting regional  escalations at every opportunity is alarming and comes to prove the  analyses made by a number of think tanks that Azerbaijan will do  everything to disrupt the process of concluding a peace agreement  with Armenia in order to launch a new aggression against Armenia  after the COP29 to be held in Baku in November this year.

I draw your attention and the one of the international community to  this, as well as to the fact that official Yerevan's proposal to  conclude a peace agreement within 1 month remained without response  by official Baku.

Thank you."