Even if we sign a peace agreement in the near future, we still cannot say that everything is over and peace has been fully established, Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan stated during Wednesday’s question-and-answer session with the government at the National Assembly of Armenia.

“Despite the fact that they say that this is just an initialing, not a signing, or they say that ‘this is just papers,’ what happened [in Washington DC on August 8] is a very important event, both at the level of the signed texts and the verbal statements of the heads of state in interviews with the press. Peace has been established [between Armenia and Azerbaijan].

There are also assumptions that there are still many problems, so the ‘peace’ we declared ‘is not peace.’

We are still at the beginning of the road, peace is a long process, peace requires care, concern, caution in terms of speaking, in terms of any document.

It is undeniable that there is a long history of enmity and bloodshed between the two nations. Peace is established not between friendly nations, but between countries and nations that have been in conflict [with one another].

If we simplify everything, then at the moment the [two] parties are not shooting at each other, the risk of escalation [of tension] is minimal and tends to zero, the risk of a sharp conflict is minimal.

Are there any problems? Many. We do not have a final solution to the issue of [Armenian] prisoners [in Azerbaijan], although Azerbaijan was obligated to release everyone," the Armenian FM noted.