Pashinyan announced Armenia’s interest in peace with Azerbaijan

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Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced the readiness of his government to conclude a peace treaty with Azerbaijan. He announced this on Friday, December 24, speaking live on his Facebook page.

“Of course, we are interested in starting negotiations on this topic and in signing the peace treaty itself. Recently, the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group proposed an agenda for negotiations, one of the points of which was the issue of a comprehensive peace settlement. And yes, we are interested in this “, – quotes Pashinyan’s words” Sputnik.Armenia “.

The prime minister added that Armenia did not refuse and does not refuse to speak on this topic. “One also gets the impression that we are against a peace agreement and a comprehensive settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh problem. Of course not. We are interested in this, ”he said.

Pashinyan also said that he would take part in the informal summit of the heads of the CIS states, which will be held on December 28 in St. Petersburg, and plans to hold a conversation with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on the sidelines of the event.

Armed clashes regularly occur on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan due to the unresolved conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. The last time active clashes took place on November 16 – then, after a series of incidents, one of the shootings escalated into full-fledged hostilities using military equipment and artillery, more than ten people were killed on both sides.

This happened a year after the end of the 44-day Second Karabakh War, which in the fall of 2020 claimed the lives of, according to various estimates, from 6,000 to 10,000 people. As a result of the armed conflict that ended on November 10, 2020, part of the territories that had been under the control of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic since the first war passed to Baku. Russian and Turkish peacekeepers are stationed in the region.

At the end of November, Russian President Vladimir Putin, who took part in the ceasefire between Yerevan and Baku last fall, said that Pashinyan and Aliyev had agreed by the end of the year to create mechanisms for the demarcation and delimitation of the border between the two states.

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