Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has stated that whereas Yerevan and Baku have agreed on fundamental ideas for a peace treaty, the 2 sides are ”nonetheless talking totally different diplomatic languages” in talks.
Addressing the autumn session of the Parliamentary Meeting of the Group for Safety and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) that opened in Yerevan on November 18, Pashinian lamented that Azerbaijan has but to publicly commit to 3 ideas for reaching peace that he stated have already been agreed upon.
Pashinian additionally stated the shortage of dedication deepens the ambiance of distrust and that rhetoric from Azerbaijani officers leaves open the prospect for renewed ”army aggression” in opposition to Armenia.
”Yerevan and Baku nonetheless converse totally different diplomatic languages,” he stated, including that ”we frequently don’t perceive one another.”
Pashinian and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev had held a number of rounds of peace talks beneath EU mediation earlier than Baku launched a lightning offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh that ended three a long time of rule by ethnic Armenians within the disputed territory.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have fought two wars within the final three a long time over the area, which had been a majority ethnic-Armenian enclave for the reason that Soviet collapse and is internationally acknowledged as Azerbaijani territory.
The area initially got here beneath the management of ethnic-Armenian forces, backed by the Armenian army, in separatist combating that resulted in 1994.
Throughout a conflict in 2020, nevertheless, Azerbaijan took again components of Nagorno-Karabakh together with surrounding territory that Armenian forces had claimed in the course of the earlier battle.
After a cease-fire settlement was rapidly reached between ethnic-Armenian forces and Azerbaijan following Baku’s offensive in September, practically 100,000 ethnic Armenians fled to Armenia as Baku took management of the entire of Nagorno-Karabakh.
”We’ve got good and unhealthy information in regards to the Armenia-Azerbaijan peace course of,” Pashinian was quoted as saying.
”It’s good that the essential ideas of peace with Azerbaijan have been agreed upon,” he stated, referring to 3 ideas for peace that he introduced in late October had been labored out throughout talks with Aliyev in Brussels that had been mediated by European Council President Charles Michel.
These ideas, he informed the Armenian parliament on the time, had been: Armenia and Azerbaijan recognizing one another’s territorial integrity, that the delimitation of the nations’ borders be primarily based on the 1991 Alma-Ata Declaration, and that regional commerce, transport, and communication be opened whereas respecting sovereign jurisdictions.
The draw back is that by not acknowledging the settlement, Pashinian stated, Baku was deepening the ambiance of distrust.
Pashinian additionally accused Azerbaijani officers of calling Armenia ”Western Azerbaijan.”
”This appears to us to be a preparation for a brand new conflict, a brand new army aggression in opposition to Armenia, and it is likely one of the primary obstacles to progress within the peace course of,” Pashinian stated.
The Armenian prime minister’s feedback got here after Baku stated on November 16 that it might not take part in normalization talks on the foreign-minister degree with Yerevan that had been deliberate in america this month.
The Azerbaijani International Ministry stated the choice was in response to what it referred to as ”one-sided and biased remarks” made by U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs James O’Brien in opposition to Azerbaijan.
In September, Baku withdrew from two conferences deliberate by the European Union. The identical month Aliyev refused to attend a spherical of negotiations with Pashinian that had been to be mediated by French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, and the EU’s Michel.
Baku cited France’s allegedly ”biased place” in opposition to Azerbaijan as the explanation for skipping these talks in Spain.
Through the OSCE Parliamentary Meeting session in Yerevan on November 17, Armenian parliament speaker Alen Simonian stated there was a historic alternative to determine peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Simonian additionally stated Armenia is sincerely excited about normalizing relations with Turkey, having open borders and transportation hyperlinks within the area, and interesting in negotiations with out preconditions.
“I’ve an amazing hope that these negotiations will yield the specified ends in the close to future,” Simonian stated, stressing that the area wants peace.
On November 17, OSCE Parliamentary Meeting President Pia Kauma welcomed Armenia’s expressed curiosity in reaching a cope with Azerbaijan.
“You will need to keep momentum within the peace course of and for Armenia and Azerbaijan to succeed in a full settlement,” Kauma stated. “We acknowledge that the background may be very painful, however regardless of the difficulties, this second needs to be seen as a chance for all to forge a brand new path for the area primarily based on peaceable coexistence, mutual safety, and financial prosperity.”