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YEREVAN, MARCH 14, ARMENPRESS. Azerbaijan is rigging the draft peace treaty with Armenia with booby traps in order to continue its aggressive policy against Armenia even after the possible signing of the agreement, PM Nikol Pashinyan warned on Tuesday.
“What’s Azerbaijan doing? Azerbaijan says ‘I’ve won the war, what negotiations, what proposals? I’ve won, I am sending a paper, I’ve sent my five principles, sign it, and if you don’t sign it in 2023 I will launch a major attack’. And now, our reporters, realizing this situation, are asking whether we could go and sign something which would constitute a capitulation. And I am saying, no,” Pashinyan said, adding that he is ready to go for solutions that would ensure sustainable and lasting peace in the region.
Pashinyan said that Azerbaijan is using threats in the negotiations process, as it did before the 44-Day War. “Before the war Azerbaijan’s negotiations position was the following – ‘give me what I want to gain through war, or else I will take it through war’. And that was a very difficult choice,” Pashinyan added.
The Armenian Prime Minister said that a highly important position is beginning to develop among the international community. “We are presenting proposals to Azerbaijan but Azerbaijan is sending them back with most of our proposals scratched off. And when we present this problem to our international partners, they tell us that this isn’t peace, because what’s being proposed won’t lead to lasting peace, on the contrary it would lead to new crises. We are ready to go for solutions which, being far from what we dream of, would nonetheless lead to lasting and sustainable peace,” Pashinyan said.
Pashinyan added that peace must be earned rather than imposed. He said that in the past many people believed that peace can be imposed, but if that was the case a treaty with Armenia’s terms would’ve been signed. Pashinyan said that now it is Azerbaijan that thinks peace can be imposed, while Armenia is saying that it doesn’t favor the policy of imposing.
