Unlike Ukraine, Armenia has no document on minimum conditions for  peace - opposition MP

ArmInfo. Unlike Ukraine, Armenia initialed an agreement that doesn't even contain the bare minimum conditions for establishing peace with Azerbaijan. This was written on her page by opposition MP Kristine Vardanyan, a member of the Armenia faction, comparing the US peace plan for Ukraine proposed on November 20 with the Washington Agreement of August 8 on  establishing peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

The MP noted that she studied the published peace plan for Ukraine  and the first thing that aroused her interest was the document's  specificity: that is, its measurability, legal language, and clear  mechanisms. In this regard, she wondered why it was impossible to  draft a similar document for Armenia. "Perhaps the whole 'secret' is  that Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan chose to fulfill  Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev's latest demand and negotiate with  him directly, without intermediaries," the MP suggested.

The opposition member then drew attention to the specifics a document  with the word "peace" in its title might contain, using the example  of the US peace plan for Ukraine. First, as Vardanyan noted, such a  document necessarily includes clear security guarantees. "For  example, in the case of Ukraine, these are security guarantees from  the US, which are absent in our case. This also includes the  settlement of territorial issues and their international control.  Thus, the peace plan for Ukraine proposes a clear, nominal resolution  of territorial issues; in particular, the parties undertake not to  violate this agreement by force and not to leave this issue to the  discretion of some intergovernmental commission," the MP explained.

Vardanyan cited humanitarian obligations as another important point  of this document. According to this clause, the opposition member  explained, the parties commit to exchanging all prisoners. However,  she noted that in the case of Armenia, this issue is not even  mentioned. "Furthermore, this plan includes mechanisms for  monitoring, control, and punishment in the event of violations.  According to the plan, control will be carried out by a 'Peace  Council' under the leadership of US President Donald Trump. Any  violations will be followed by sanctions. In the case of Armenia,  such a mechanism does not even exist," Vardanyan noted.

Therefore, as the MP pointed out, Armenia has an initialed "document  of hostile statements under diplomatic language," called a "peace  agreement." "Meanwhile, there is no separate security department, no  guarantee mechanism, no clarification of borders, no guarantee of  third-party control, no accountability of any force. In other words,  there is nothing that constitutes a minimum condition for signing any  document containing the word 'peace' in the title. This is precisely  why members of the ruling Civil Contract party start shouting every  time someone asks them to show a document similar to the agreement  they initialed," the opposition leader concluded.

As a reminder, on August 8, a trilateral meeting of the leaders of  the United States, Armenia, and Azerbaijan took place at the White  House. During this meeting, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan,  US President Donald Trump, and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev  signed a joint declaration aimed at resolving the conflict between  Yerevan and Baku.