People of South Caucasus deserve peace and living in stability -  Armenian MP

ArmInfo. The Winter Meeting of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly takes place in Vienna. The Head of the RA NA delegation, the Chair of the RA NA Standing Committee on Foreign Relations to the OSCE PA Sargis Khandanyan gave a speech at  the Committee on Political Affairs and Security.

"Thank you, Mister Chair.

I also want to thank Tobias Winkler for his expressed optimism when  it comes to peace in the South Caucasus. However, it is quite  disturbing that while Armenia and Azerbaijan are negotiating on peace  and normalization, the head of the Azerbaijani delegation is bringing  up new elements to this debate in line with conflict narratives.

But today, I'm not going to counter them with similar narratives and  rhetoric-not because I do not have counter arguments, but because I'm  committed to peace. Armenia is committed to peace. Armenians have  also suffered a lot at the hands of Azerbaijan when it comes to human  rights violations and violations of international humanitarian law.  But again, I'm not going to name them - for the sake of peace and for  the sake of the future.

When it comes to the deblocking of regional infrastructure and  communications, as my colleague has already mentioned, Armenia  submitted a written proposal to Azerbaijan, and we are awaiting a  reaction.  The same goes for arms control. Armenia submitted a  written proposal to Azerbaijan on mutual arms control, based on  international law and standards. Again, we are waiting for a positive  reaction.

The people of the South Caucasus and future generations deserve peace  and deserve to live in stability, and we, politicians, have our share  of responsibility in this. My suggestion is: let's talk on peace, not  war.