Azerbaijan offered Armenia a meeting to continue negotiations on a peace treaty. agreement - Armenia reiterated its readiness to "resume negotiations" with Azerbaijan. This was reported by UNN with reference to the Armenian and Azerbaijani Foreign Ministries .
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The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry noted, that Baku is ready for direct negotiations with Yerevan on a bilateral basis, Armenia was offered a meeting on the border between the two countries.
Baku's call came after the Armenian Foreign Ministry reported that Yerevan had submitted Azerbaijan with another proposal for a peace agreement after a call by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's call on November 18 to "intensify diplomatic efforts to achieve the signing of a peace agreement."
We believe that both countries should decide together on their future relations. The responsibility for the continuation of the peace process, including the choice of a mutually acceptable venue for negotiations, or the decision to meet at the state border, belongs to the two countries
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In a statement today, the Armenian Foreign Ministry In its statement today, the Armenian Foreign Ministry emphasized that official Yerevan is ready to resume negotiations, taking "mutual recognition and respect for territorial integrity" on the basis of the Alma-Ata Declaration (a document that which confirmed the end of the USSR and defined the principles of relations and cooperation of former members of the Soviet Union - ed.) and "unblocking of the region's infrastructure based on the principles of full respect for sovereignty, jurisdiction, reciprocity, and mutual jurisdiction, reciprocity and equality of states".
It also says that "despite all the difficulties and challenges," official Yerevan sees "a real opportunity to establish peace between the two countries, which of establishing peace between the two countries, which can be realized if there is political will on both sides, and the Armenian side has such a will."
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The conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia has been going on for more than a century, and it has several contradictions. The main dispute has been over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, which belongs to Azerbaijan under international by international law belongs to Azerbaijan, but in which a significant part of the population were Armenians.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the parties fought over Nagorno-Karabakh, - the confrontation ended with the signing of a peace agreement, according to which the territories of Transcaucasia became an unrecognized republic.
But the armed clashes, which were considered "frozen" at the time considered "frozen," flared up again from time to time. Once again, the armed confrontation has escalated in recent years. In September 2023, Azerbaijan conducted "anti-terrorist measures" in Nagorno-Karabakh, as a result of which the unrecognized "republic" surrendered. At the same time, Armenia refused to send its military forces to the region.
After Baku established full control over Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan were scheduled to meet for talks on the sidelines of the EU summit on October 5 in Granada, Spain. However, at the last minute, Aliyev withdrew from the talks at the last minute.
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Earlier UNN reported that Armenia is looking for other partnersin the security sector. in the security sector, but has not yet withdrawn from the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).