Our goal is to sign a peace treaty: Pashinyan

The entire purpose of the OSCE Minsk Group negotiation process is to reach the stage of signing a peace treaty. This was stated today, November 17, by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan during a question-and-answer session with the government in the National Assembly, in response to a question from Lena Nazaryan, a deputy from the “Civil Contract” faction, about Azerbaijan's proposal to sign a peace agreement.

Azerbaijan's leadership has proposed to Armenia to sign a peace treaty, and Pashinyan addressed what Armenia's response is, saying, “We have also proposed to Azerbaijan to sign a peace treaty and have stated that the entire purpose of the OSCE Minsk Group negotiation process is to reach the stage of signing a peace treaty. Even in all previously existing negotiation packages, the goal of the negotiation process has been to sign a peace treaty. It is strange for me to hear that Azerbaijan says, ‘We continuously propose to Armenia to sign a peace treaty,' while there is no response from Armenia. We have talked about this dozens of times.”

He emphasized, “When we speak about restoring the negotiation process and are engaged in it, our goal is to sign a peace treaty, which must be preceded by agreeing on the text of the peace treaty, which is quite comprehensive work that we have expressed our readiness for and consider to be our agenda as well.”

Nazaryan cited the statement of Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Bayramov, which indicates that it is necessary to resolve the delimitation issue, create a relevant committee, and start the delimitation process to ease tensions at the border, and she asked for Pashinyan’s comment on this.

Pashinyan replied,