Armenia’s Pashinyan vows peace deal with Azerbaijan by November

Armenian PM Pashinyan hopes to sign a peace agreement with Azerbaijan by November emphasizing adherence to established principles

Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated that Yerevan is ready to sign a peace agreement with Baku based on well-established principles before November.

Addressing a press conference in Yerevan on May 7, Pashinyan responded to the Azerbaijani President’s recent statement that such an agreement could be signed by November.

“I agree with the idea of signing a peace agreement by November, and for this to happen, all agreed-upon principles must be enshrined in the agreement,” he stated.

He emphasized the importance of outlining and including these principles in the agreement. He did not give an immediate timetable but expressed optimism that progress could be made at the meeting of the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia in Kazakhstan.

According to Kazakh Foreign Ministry spokesman Aybek Smadiyarov, senior diplomats from Azerbaijan and Armenia are scheduled to hold talks on a peace agreement in Almaty, Kazakhstan on May 10.

Since 1991, relations between Baku and Yerevan have been strained after the Armenian army occupied Karabakh, internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, along with seven neighboring regions. Azerbaijan liberated a significant part of the region during a 44-day war in the fall of 2020.

Conflict was settled in a Russian-brokered peace agreement that paved the way for normalizing and demarcating its borders.

Source: Newsroom