Yesterday, Armenia completed the work of the next phase of the draft peace and relations’ establishment treaty with Azerbaijan, and Armenia’s proposals have been forwarded to the Azerbaijani side, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced at Thursday’s Cabinet meeting of the Armenian government.
"By saying ‘proposals,’ a complete draft document with our proposals should be meant. We have forwarded the document to the co-chairing countries of the OSCE Minsk Group, too. We are working on the draft with the following logic: Get a document that we are ready to sign at any time. It is clear, of course, that this document should be acceptable to Azerbaijan as well. We hope that it will be possible to develop the certain progress observed as a result of three phases of negotiations.
Our vision is as follows: the document should contain such logic of agreements, such an effective system of counterweights and restraints which will exclude any scenario of disruption of lasting and stable peace. The meaning of this is that the signing of the document should not turn into a war on the basis of a peace treaty—this sounds absurd, but it can also be such a scenario—, but on the contrary, it really means lasting peace.
I express once again: such peace establishment treaty which will become a guarantee of lasting and stable peace. This is the commitment of our government and myself to sign such a treaty as soon as possible. I am ready to take and bear such responsibility," said the Armenian PM.
