Security is one of the key factors of human well-being, at least equal to bread. In strategic terms, the only reliable guarantee of ensuring security is peace. And I am happy to record that the draft of the agreement on the establishment of peace and interstate relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan has been agreed, and the negotiations on the agreement on the draft—completed. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan noted this in his remarks Tuesday in the National Assembly during the debates on the Armenian government’s performance report for 2024.

"This means that we have entered the phase of discussions on the signing of the agreement, and I have announced that I am ready to put my signature—on behalf of the people of Armenia—under the agreement. At the official level, Azerbaijan links the signing of the agreement with two matters. The first of them is the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group organizations.

I have repeatedly said that this is an understandable agenda for the Republic of Armenia. If we are closing the page of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict—and we are doing that, what is the point of the existence of an organization dealing with the conflict? But the OSCE Minsk Group, at least de facto, has a broader context, and we [i.e. Armenia] want to be sure that Azerbaijan does not view the dissolution of the Minsk Group as a step towards closing the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict on the territory of Azerbaijan, and transferring [it] to the sovereign territory of the Republic of Armenia.

To dispel this concern, we propose to Azerbaijan to sign at the same time the peace agreement and the joint petition addressed to the OSCE to dissolve the Minsk Group organizations.

That is, to put the peace agreement and the joint petition on the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group organizations on the table, and to sign both the first and the second in the same place, at the same time. This, by the way, is an official proposal,” Pashinyan added.