Armenia ready to waive international lawsuits against Azerbaijan on  principle of reciprocity if peace treaty concluded - Nikol Pashinyan 

ArmInfo. Armenia is ready to waive international lawsuits against Azerbaijan on the principle of reciprocity if a peace treaty is concluded. This was stated by  Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan in an  interview with the Public Television of Armenia. 

"My approach is the following: if I see that we are really moving  towards peace, and that is, a peace treaty is really concluded, then  we can come to an agreement - to mutually withdraw lawsuits in  international courts about past events. And in the future, not to  file lawsuits about past events, hoping that in the future there will  be no reason for this," he noted.

At the same time, the Prime Minister noted that if in the future  there is a reason to file a claim with the International Court,  neither the Armenian nor the Azerbaijani side will be limited in  this. Let us recall that on September 28, 2023, Armenia filed a claim  against Azerbaijan with the International Court of Justice regarding  the alleged violation of the International Convention on the  Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination against the  Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh. In addition, the Republic of  Armenia submitted four complaints to the European Court of Human  Rights. One of them concerns crimes and human rights violations that  occurred during the 44-day 2020, the second concerns the trials of  Armenian prisoners of war in Baku.

Another case concerns the invasion of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces  into the territory of Armenia and the crimes committed there, and the  latest complaint concerns the blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh, massive  human rights violations and ethnic cleansing. At the same time,  Azerbaijani media, citing the country's Foreign Ministry, reported  that on November 19, 2024, the Azerbaijani government submitted the  main document of the claim against Armenia to the Permanent  Arbitration Court, accusing the Armenian side of allegedly violating  Azerbaijan's sovereign rights to energy resources.