Peace treaty negotiations are essentially ongoing today. Today and tomorrow in Berlin, the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan will negotiate the peace treaty, and according to the results of those negotiations, we can assess what stage we are at. Sargis Khandanyan, Chairman of the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Foreign Relations, said this during the briefing at the Parliament.
“You know that there was a seventh round of proposals, today and tomorrow the foreign ministers will work on the text, and after that we will understand whether these negotiations are progressing or whether additional negotiations are still needed,” Khandanyan explained.
One of the journalists said that the Armenian officials spoke about a setback after the last two exchanges of the text of the peace treaty, however no more details were provided. What does Azerbaijan want so that it is qualified as a setback? Khandanyan said that he assumed that during the negotiations and work on the text of the treaty there were certain details in the articles that were agreed upon, however in subsequent editions, Azerbaijan backed away from those agreements.
“We have continuously insisted that these agreements should be kept on the agreed articles,” said Sargis Khandanyan, emphasizing that changes occur after each editing, and emphasizing that the negotiations of the document take place not online, but during the actual negotiations.
When asked whether the Armenian side or the Azerbaijani side withdrew from the agreements, Khandanyan clarified once again that it was the Azerbaijani side.
“The Armenian side insists that what has been agreed upon must be kept, and it cannot be reversed. In general, we are talking about the principles of negotiations,” he emphasized.
To the question of one of the journalists, what is the hope that Azerbaijan will be the owner of its signature after the signing of the peace treaty, Khandanyan answered that it is obvious that Azerbaijan is not a reliable partner.
“A number of details negotiated and agreed upon during the negotiations are not recorded in the document later, but if we proceed from the assumption that there is no hope and whatever is signed, the tension will not end in the future, then there is no point in negotiations. The whole meaning of our negotiations is to reduce the tension and to form a certain framework for negotiation cooperation, after which it will be possible to establish stability in the region,” said the Chairman of the NA Standing Committee on Foreign Relations.
