ArmInfo.Signing a peace agreement with Azerbaijan as soon as possible is among the Armenian government’s plans, Armenia’s Premier Nikol Pashinyan stated in Parliament on Wednesday.
Speaking of the agreements reached following the trilateral meeting in Brussels, he said: “I agreed to preparation of a peace agreement by the Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers.” Issues of schedule and format of work have to be discussed.
Yerevan has no illusions about it as Azerbaijan could attempt to bring to the peace talks to stalemate as soon as possible to justify its new acts of aggression against Armenia and Artsakh. “We have similar expectation about border delimitation as we do not rule out Azerbaijan will make use of the process to formulate territorial claims to Armenia while de jure stating it has no territorial claims,” he said.
Aware of and calculating all the risks, Armenia’s authorities have arrived at the conclusion that no progress only entails higher risks.
“This is the reason why we agreed on delimitation in Brussels to set us an Armenian-Azerbaijani commission on birder delimitation and security by the end of April and start working,” Mr Pashinyan said. The Armenian side’s strategy is clarifying Azerbaijan’s official position on the border and specifying Armenia’s position, “being legitimate to the highest extent possible, that is, using only facts and arguments de jure, getting this legitimacy internationally recognized and reaching an agreement on the Armenian and Azerbaijani borders. It means being based on de jure facts that are of importance for delimitation, rather than on wishes or talks,” Mr Pashinyan said.
He reported that the bilateral commission members will be finally named before April 30.
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