Initialing of Armenia-Azerbaijan peace agreement historic event -  Italian diplomat 

ArmInfo.  The initialing of the peace agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia on August 8 last year in Washington was a historic event.

According to APA, Italian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and  International Cooperation Edmondo Cirielli stated this at the 6th  meeting of the Intergovernmental Commission on Economic Cooperation  between Azerbaijan and Italy in Baku.

"We hope that the new situation will contribute to strengthening  peace not only in the South Caucasus but also in other regions,"  Cirielli noted.

As a reminder, on August 8, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan  and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed a seven-point joint  "Declaration of Peace" in Washington. It envisages 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  would connect Azerbaijan with its Nakhchivan exclave, surrounded by  Armenia, Turkey, and Iran. The TRIPP (Trump Route for International  Peace and Prosperity) project is a 42-kilometer stretch of road  through southern Armenia, which, according to rumors, will be  transferred to US control for 99 years.