Speaker of the Armenian parliament Alen Simonyan has said that Azerbaijan should provide information about the victims of Nagorno-Karabakh war.
Sominyan’s comments came after accusations were made by the Prosecutor General of Azerbaijan that Armenia allegedly refuses to provide information about the "4 thousand Azerbaijanis who died in the first war" in Karabakh.
Simonyan said if Azerbaijan demands such information, it should respond in kind to Armenia’s requests, Sputnik Armenia reports.
The official also noted that Armenia’s international partners do not understand why Baku is delaying the signing of a peace treaty with Yerevan.
According to him, foreign colleagues are also interested in the reasons for Baku's behavior in private conversations. Simonyan emphasized that there are already countries ready to provide a platform for signing, which can be seen as a signal of the need to complete the process.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan continued on September 26 to urge Azerbaijan to sign a partial peace agreement with Armenia despite Baku’s repeated rejections of the idea, RFE/RL’s Armenian seervice reports.
Addressing the UN General Assembly in New York, Pashinyan also sent mixed signals about a possible change of Armenia’s constitution demanded by Azerbaijan.
“The president of Azerbaijan and I have stated many times that at least 80 percent of the mentioned agreement has been agreed upon,” he said. “Now, to seize this historic opportunity and avoid the risk of reaching a deadlock, Armenia proposes to take what has already been agreed in the draft Agreement, sign it … and then go on with negotiations on pending issues. We are ready to do this right now.”
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev reiterated earlier that this arrangement is unacceptable to Baku. Aliyev has also made the signing of a peace deal with Yerevan conditional on a change of Armenia’s constitution which he says contains territorial claims to Azerbaijan.