Aliyev notes positive trend in Azerbaijani-Armenian peace process

BAKU. May 2 (Interfax) - Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has noted a positive trend in the peace process with Armenia.

"It was Azerbaijan, the country that elaborated basic principles and even drafted the peace agreement. Currently, negotiations between two countries are being held based on our draft proposal [...] Now we are seeing positive trends on the peace track, at the same time, border delimitation has actually started. It is not just delimitation but demarcation," Aliyev said at the opening of the 6th World Forum on Intercultural Dialogue with the theme Dialogue for Peace and Global Security: Cooperation and Interconnectivity in Baku on Wednesday.

The border delimitation and demarcation is based on bilateral agreements reached without mediation, Aliyev said.

"This once again demonstrates that we don't need mediators, especially those who pursue their own goals and don't want to help but rather want to penetrate in our region for their personal, political, and economic interests. They want to once again pour oil to the fire and explode the South Caucasus. We will not allow that to happen," he said.

Peace in the South Caucasus is possible only if relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia are normalized, he said.