Aliyev and Pashinyan to discuss peace treaty in Brussels

Nikol Pashinyan and Ilham Aliyev

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan at a meeting in Brussels on May 22 will discuss the points proposed by the parties on the start of negotiations on a peace agreement. Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia Armen Grigoryan stated this in an interview with Armenpress agency.

“The agenda is as follows: the points proposed by Armenia and Azerbaijan for the settlement of relations or the start of peace negotiations, the issues of returning prisoners and finding out the fate of missing persons, the issues of unblocking regional communications, the issues of starting the work of a bilateral commission on border delimitation and security,” Grigoryan said.

The new meeting will take place against the backdrop of protests in Armenia, the reason for which was Pashinyan's advice to "lower the degree of expectations" on the peace agreement. The opposition saw in this phrase the risk of "surrendering" Karabakh to Azerbaijan; Armenian authorities rule out such a possibility.

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In early April, the presidents of the two countries met in Brussels. it was also attended by the HEAD of the European Council, Charles Michel. The parties, in particular, agreed to set up a bilateral commission to delimit the borders between the two Transcaucasian republics.

The Armenian and Azerbaijani sides are negotiating two documents - a draft peace agreement proposed by Baku in mid-March and Yerevan's response to it. The Azerbaijan project consists of five points:

mutual recognition of sovereignty, territorial integrity, inviolability of international borders and political independence of each other; mutual confirmation of the absence of territorial claims of states against each other and a legal obligation not to make such claims in the future; the obligation to refrain from threats to security in relation to each other in interstate relations, from the use of force and the threat of force against political independence and territorial integrity, as well as from other circumstances incompatible with the purposes of the UN Charter; delimitation and demarcation of the state border, establishment of diplomatic relations; opening of transport communications, establishment of other communications and cooperation in other areas of mutual interest. 5 tips Instructions Pro Ceiling above 700 thousand rubles. per month:

Yerevan agreed with the proposals of the Azerbaijani side, but noted that they do not take into account the problem of the status of Nagorno-Karabakh and the Armenians living there.

In September 2020, an armed conflict broke out between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which ended on November 8 of the same year. As a result of hostilities, the Azerbaijani army occupied the city of Shusha, later declared the cultural capital of Azerbaijan.

As a result of the conflict, a trilateral peace agreement was concluded between Azerbaijan, Armenia and RUSSIA. According to him, a group of Russian peacekeepers numbering 10 thousand people was deployed in the territories controlled by Armenia.