After the peace treaty takes effect and both Armenia and Azerbaijan withdraw international lawsuits against each other, the two countries will be bound to not file such lawsuits pertaining to pre-peace treaty events against each other in the future, Foreign Minister of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan said.
Asked by reporters about the statement by Hikmet Hajiyev, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s top aide, that Armenia must give compensations for “occupied territories”, Mirzoyan said, “This is truly one of the cases where the negotiations process and peaceful resolution, establishment of relations is torpedoed with unconstructive statements.”
Mirzoyan added that he can point out dozens of cases where Azerbaijan has violated human rights and caused material damages.
“Now, when the treaty will take effect, when the sides will withdraw the lawsuits, at the same time the two sides will assume obligation to not file lawsuits against each other in the future around the issues that had existed between the sides prior to signing the treaty. It is assumed that in all disputes that we now have the sides must reconcile,” Mirzoyan said.
