Yerevan – Baku take steps towards peace in region
Armenia and Azerbaijan are negotiating a peace treaty
Azerbaijan is on the path of taking steps to establish truce in the South Caucasus region and the peace agreement between Yerevan and Baku can be possibly signed, Armenian Parliament Speaker Alen Simonyan said on Tuesday.
“The peace has never been so close,” the Armenian parliament’s chief said. “We keep supporting the peace process. They [Azerbaijan] are taking steps in this direction.”
Simonyan added that “certain, principles of the upcoming peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan have already been agreed upon.”
“Some issues remain to be solved, but I think we will be able to settle them later,” he added.
Armenia and Azerbaijan are negotiating a peace treaty. One of the major obstacles is the demarcation of a shared section of the border. Yerevan insists that the border delimitation should be politically based on the 1991 Alma-Ata Declaration.
The Armenian authorities assert that the 1974-1990 maps of the General Staff of the Soviet Union’s Armed Forces should be used for this purpose. Another topic of discussion is the opening of regional transport corridors. Yerevan believes that the principle of preserving the jurisdiction of the countries through whose territory they pass should be applied.
