Armenia has offered a complete peace treaty to Azerbaijan to finish the Caucasus neighbors’ decadeslong dispute over the Nagorno-Karabakh area.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan made the announcement at a cupboard assembly in Yerevan Thursday.
“The final and complete version of an agreement with our proposals has been handed over,” Pashinyan mentioned.
The two nations have fought two wars for management of Azerbaijan’s Armenian-populated enclave which have claimed tens of hundreds of lives.
Internationally-mediated peace talks between the ex-Soviet republics have since produced little if any end result.
He added that Yerevan had accomplished Wednesday “another stage of working on a project of a peace treaty and on establishing (diplomatic) relations” with Baku.
“The document has to be acceptable to Azerbaijan … its signing must bring about a lasting peace,” Pashinyan claimed.
An settlement would supply for monitoring mechanisms by either side to forestall breaches of the peace.
Copies have been despatched to Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) members Russia, the United States and France.
These nations are co-chairs of the Minsk Group arrange by the OSCE in 1992 to hunt a peaceable answer to the battle.
The announcement got here after Yerevan accused Baku of conducting a “policy of ethnic cleansing” and forcing ethnic Armenians to depart the area.
Since mid-December, a gaggle of Azerbaijani environmental activists has allegedly blocked the one highway linking Karabakh to Armenia to protest unlawful mining within the space.
According to Yerevan, nonetheless, the blockade has led to a “full-blown humanitarian crisis” within the mountainous area which faces shortages of meals, medicines, and gas.
Armenia received the primary Nagorno-Karabakh War that led to 1994, taking management of the area. However, Azerbaijan reclaimed a lot of the territory within the second struggle in 2020.
Sporadic clashes have erupted since regardless of a peace deal mediated by Russia. Armenia, nonetheless, has expressed disappointment at Russian peacekeepers within the area and known as for a world observer mission.
Source: www.dailysabah.com
