One of the two points not agreed upon in the negotiations on the peace treaty with Azerbaijan concerns the deployment of third-party forces along the border of Armenia and Azerbaijan. This was stated by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in an interview with Ambassador John Herbst, senior director of the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center, after his speech at the Atlantic Council Tuesday.

Azerbaijan proposes to impose a ban on the deployment of third-party forces along the border, taking into account the European civilian monitoring mission. Armenia takes note of this wish of Azerbaijan and has come up with its own proposal, which implies applying this point only in the delimited sections of the border. That is, if they have delimited a given section, it means that no third-party force should be present there. Thus, Armenia has submitted its proposal in writing and is waiting for Azerbaijan's response, Pashinyan said.

According to him, the other point concerns the lawsuits filed against each other in international courts. The idea is to withdraw all these lawsuits. In general, Armenia is not against this idea either, but its proposal is not only to withdraw these lawsuits, but also not to raise these issues in bilateral relations. Otherwise, a strange situation may arise when, for example, a certain issue is withdrawn from the trial of an international court, but one of the two parties attempts to put this issue on the table in bilateral relations and one of the parties can use this issue to provoke escalation, the Armenian PM said.

In that case, it will no longer be possible to transfer this lawsuit to international courts. Armenia is not against this idea either. It proposes to put an end to further discussions on conflict issues and open a new era of bilateral relations, starting from a new and clean page, Pashinyan added.

This means that all the important issues of the draft peace treaty have already been agreed upon. There were very deep and sensitive topics in that draft, but there is already agreement on all these issues. For example, Armenia and Azerbaijan have agreed to recognize each other's territorial integrity based on the borders of Soviet Armenia and Soviet Azerbaijan, said the Armenian premier.

They have agreed to have a provision that Armenia and Azerbaijan have no territorial claims against each other and will not raise such claims in the future either. This is actually the cornerstone of future peace, and everything is agreed upon around it. This makes it obvious that peace is more than achievable now, and now all that is needed is political will to complete the draft peace treaty, sign it, and achieve sustainable peace, the prime minister of Armenia stated.