Azerbaijan does not agree with Armenia's proposal to sign the peace agreement with currently agreed provisions. Aykhan Hajizada, the spokesperson of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), stated this in an interview with Report.

"There is a regular exchange of proposals and comments on the draft agreement between the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan and Armenia. So far, ten such exchanges have been organized. The last time, Armenia sent its comments at the end of August, about 70 days after Azerbaijan proposed comments in June. Overall, in the last few weeks, Armenian officials have only been making more contradictory statements in this regard. They distort the realities of the peace process and make relevant comments in this regard.

The Armenian side proposes that a peace agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia be signed while maintaining the currently agreed provisions. However, Azerbaijan has stated several times that this is not an acceptable option. There is a rule for any draft agreement that nothing is considered agreed until everything is agreed. Negotiations on the draft are closed and details are not open to the general public. However, we can note that many provisions of the draft, about 80%, have been agreed upon so far, while some provisions have not been agreed upon, meaning there is no final agreement. But this does not mean that, as the Armenian side suggests, the agreement should be signed by removing the unagreed provisions from the draft. Because for the peace agreement to be sustainable and successful, a number of problematic issues between the two countries need to be clarified in the draft," Hajizada said.

Moreover, Azerbaijan's MFA spox once again voiced his country’s ambitions towards Armenian legislation.

"There is a need to discuss the open provisions of the draft agreement. In general, for the draft agreement to be signed, Armenia must first make appropriate changes to its Constitution, which currently refers to the territorial claims against our country. As long as Armenia does not end the ongoing claims to our territories in its legislative acts, there can be no talk of true peace between the two countries," Hajizada said.

And to the question whether another meeting between foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan is expected soon, the Azerbaijani official responded that “there is currently no decision on the place and date of the next meeting on the peace agreement.”

"We can only say that Azerbaijan has always been an interested party in the continuation of the negotiation process," Hajizada added.