SHUSHA, Azerbaijan: Azerbaijan is proposing to signal a doc with Armenia on the fundamental ideas of a future peace treaty as an interim measure as they wrangle over a broader deal, a senior Azerbaijani official mentioned on Sunday (Jul 21).
Each Armenia and Azerbaijan have repeatedly mentioned they wish to signal a peace treaty to finish the battle over the previous breakaway Azerbaijani area of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev mentioned on Saturday a textual content of a treaty was 80 per cent-90 per cent prepared however repeated it was inconceivable 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 many years till September 2023, when a lightning Azerbaijani offensive retook the territory and prompted round 100,000 Armenians to flee.
Each international locations have in current months sought to make progress on the peace treaty, together with the demarcation of borders, with Armenia agreeing handy over to Azerbaijan 4 contested border villages.
A doc on the fundamental ideas might be thought of as a short lived 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, advised Reuters.
It may be signed till Azerbaijan holds COP29 local weather summit in November, Hajiyev added.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan mentioned 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 newest in a collection 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 mentioned the nation wanted a brand new structure “which the individuals will take into account to be what they created, what they accepted, what’s written in it’s their thought of the state they created and the relations between individuals and residents in that state”.
