SHUSHA, Azerbaijan: Azerbaijan is proposing to signal a doc with Armenia on the essential ideas of a future peace treaty as an interim measure as they wrangle over a broader deal, a senior Azerbaijani official stated on Sunday (Jul 21).
Each Armenia and Azerbaijan have repeatedly stated they wish to signal a peace treaty to finish the battle over the previous breakaway Azerbaijani area of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev stated on Saturday a textual content of a treaty was 80 per cent-90 per cent prepared however repeated it was not possible to signal it earlier than Armenia amended its structure to take away an oblique reference to Karabakh independence, which Armenia has rejected.
Karabakh’s ethnic Armenian inhabitants loved de facto independence from Azerbaijan for greater than three a long time till September 2023, when a lightning Azerbaijani offensive retook the territory and prompted round 100,000 Armenians to flee.
Each international locations have in latest months sought to make progress on the peace treaty, together with the demarcation of borders, with Armenia agreeing at hand over to Azerbaijan 4 contested border villages.
A doc on the essential ideas may very well be thought-about as a brief measure and type the premise of the bilateral ties and guarantee neighbourly relations between the 2 international locations, Hikmet Hajiyev, overseas coverage adviser to the president, informed Reuters.
It may be signed till Azerbaijan holds COP29 local weather summit in November, Hajiyev added.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated in June {that a} peace treaty with Azerbaijan was near completion however that his nation wouldn’t settle for its calls for that it change its structure.
After he made these feedback, clashes broke out between police and demonstrators, the most recent in a sequence of protests denouncing his insurance policies, together with the handing again of ruined villages to Azerbaijan, and demanding his resignation.
On Jul 5, Structure Day in Armenia, Pashinyan stated the nation wanted a brand new structure “which the folks will take into account to be what they created, what they accepted, what’s written in it’s their concept of the state they created and the relations between folks and residents in that state”.