Everything is being done for the Armenian people to live peacefully and in sovereign Armenia, with a sovereign territory of 29,743 square kilometers. Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan stated this during Thursday’s debates on the 2025 state budget draft at the joint meeting of the standing committees of the National Assembly of Armenia.

"There is a bad history between Armenia and Azerbaijan, we have an occupied territory of more than 200 square kilometers, the issue of which we intend to solve within the framework of the border delimitation process [with Azerbaijan]," said the Armenian FM.

According to Mirzoyan, there were Azerbaijani territories that were under the control of Armenia and there were Armenian territories that were under the control of Azerbaijan.

"So, we cannot say that everything was brilliant between us and now we can sign a memorandum on mutual cooperation in the field of education, etc. We have a problem and we are solving that problem," the Armenian FM said.

Ararat Mirzoyan added that they can confidently say that there were no peaceful relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan, but now they are trying to establish them.