Armenia proposes border demilitarization, non-aggression pact to Azerbaijan

PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenia has proposed demilitarization of the border with Azerbaijan, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said Sunday, January 28.

Pashinyan made the remarks at an event dedicated to the 32nd anniversary of the formation of the Army of the Republic of Armenia.

The Prime Minister added that Armenia has also proposed to Azerbaijan to develop mutual arms control mechanisms and sign a non-aggression pact if signing a peace treaty takes longer than expected.

“The Republic of Armenia is committed to the peace agenda and will not deviate from that agenda,” he added.

“We are ready to go that way and we have offered several additional security guarantee mechanisms to Azerbaijan. For example, a simultaneous withdrawal of troops from the administrative border of the Armenian SSR and the Azerbaijani SSR. That border became a state border with the 1991 Alma-Ata Declaration, and Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed on October 6, 2022 in Prague that they recognize each other's territorial integrity on that basis. The simultaneous withdrawal of troops will make it possible for all the territories of the Azerbaijan SSR to be under the control of Azerbaijan, and all the territories of the Armenian SSR under the control of Armenia.”