
ArmInfo. Georgian President Mikheil Kavelashvili said at a briefing in Ankara that he welcomes the steps taken by Azerbaijan and Armenia to establish lasting peace.
As the Georgian president indicated on social media, during a personal meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the special importance of peace and stability in the region was emphasized.
Georgia is committed to promoting peace, stability and confidence-building in the South Caucasus region through dialogue, diplomacy and cooperation and is ready to continue to contribute to the benefit of the countries of the region, Mikheil Kavelashvili wrote.
On August 8, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed a seven-point joint in Washington. It provides for a joint appeal to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to terminate the OSCE Minsk process and related structures, as well as the creation of a transport corridor through Armenian territory that will connect Azerbaijan with its Nakhichevan exclave. The TRIPP project (Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity, a 42-km road in southern Armenia that will hand over control of the road to the United States for 99 years), according to experts, is capable of significantly changing the geopolitical situation in the South Caucasus.
On the same day, the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan initialed a peace agreement, which consists of 17 articles. The preamble of the document states that the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan, recognizing the urgent need to establish a just, comprehensive and lasting peace in the region, striving to promote the achievement of this goal through the establishment of interstate relations, guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Cooperation among States in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations (1970), the Final Act of the Helsinki Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (1975) and the Almaty Declaration of December 21, 1991, and striving to develop relations on the basis of the norms and principles enshrined in the said documents, expressing their mutual will to establish good-neighborly relations between themselves, have agreed to establish peace and interstate relations.