Aliyev says 2 peace treaty clauses left to be agreed with Armenia

PanARMENIAN.Net - Baku and Yerevan have not agreed on two clauses of the future peace treaty – withdrawal of international lawsuits against each other, and the presence of third countries on the border, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said in an interview with VGTRK and RIA Novosti.

"We have actually made great progress on the peace treaty. Of the 17 articles of this document, 15 have been agreed upon, and two remain. During my last meeting with the Prime Minister of Armenia in Kazan, what I heard and felt was that these two articles have not been agreed upon, but can also be accepted by Armenia. I mean our conditions," he said.

According to the President of Azerbaijan, "one of them concerns refraining from international lawsuits against each other." "Another article concerns not placing representatives of other countries on our border," he noted.

In 2022, Yerevan and Baku began discussing a future peace treaty. Last year, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said Yerevan was ready to recognize Azerbaijan's sovereignty within Soviet borders, that is, together with Karabakh.

Earlier, Aliyev stated that in order to sign a peace treaty with Yerevan, it is important that Armenia put an end to territorial claims against Azerbaijan in its constitution and other legislative acts, and that the activities of the OSCE Minsk Group be terminated.