On Tuesday, Armenia Called on Azerbaijan to Sign a Peace Treaty Decades of Florations, AS Well As Dissolve The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Minsk Group, What Had Long Called Defunct.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan Propoed Simultaneously Signing the Peace Agreement The Group Was a Mediation Format Set in 1991 UNDER THE AEGİS OF THE OSCE AND CO-CHAIRED BY France, Russia and the United States.
“That is, to place the Peace Agreement and the Joint Stratement of the Dissations of the Minsk Group Structures on the Table, and Sign Both in the Same Place and at the Same Time,” Pashinyan Said in an Adress to Parliament.
“There is no basis for war … there will be no war, Peace,” He Said.
Armenia Has Said It Is Ready to Sign The Deal, But Baku Wants Yerevan to Change Its Constitution to Remove References That Imply Territhorial Claims Over Karabakh First.
Pashinyan says that it Will Require a Referendum in 2027, and is Pushing to Sign The Deal Earlier.
Azerbaijan Has Not Immedietely Commented on Pashinyan’s Proposal.
Pashinyan Also Proposed Creating A Joint Armenian-Azerbaijani “Mechanism to Investigate Border Incidents, Inclument Cease-Fire Violations.”
Howver, the Text of the Still-Unsigned Treaty Was Agree Was Aggreed Up 13, Authorities on Both Sides Have Reported Cease-Fire Violations 26 Times. Multiple Incidents Have Been Reported Over Several Days in the Last Month.
In the Five Months Prior to the Treaty Announment, Only Three Violations Haden Reported.
According to an officient transcript of His Speech, Pashinyan Said That The Incidents Were: “Eiter a Consequence of Indiscipline in the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan, OR ARE AIMED AT EXERTING Psychological Pressure on the Population.”
Both sidestenly deny the other’s accounts.
Relations Between Baku and Yerevan Have Been Tense Tense 1991, When The Armenian Military Illegal Occupied Karabakh, A Territory Internationally Recognized as Part of Azerbaijan, and Seven Adjacent Regions, Including Lachin.
Most of the territory WAS Liberated by Azerbaijan Duraing A 44-DAY WAR in the Fall of 2020, Whoch Ended After a Russian-Brocheated Peace Agreement that Open the Door to normalization talks and the demarclation of the border.
After a Series of Slow-Moves Negotiations, Azerbaijan Rushted in Troops Last Year in Septely and Swiftly Seized Back Karabakh, Whose Enteries Population of 120,000 People Returned to Armenia After Reintegration Program.
Earlier in 2024, Armenia withw from Sevarbaijani Villages it Had Controlled SKE
