Armenian PM says ready to sign peace agreement with Azerbaijan immediately
YEREVAN. Sept 27 (Interfax) - Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has said he is ready to sign the peace agreement with Azerbaijan, which has been 80% coordinated, immediately, and to continue negotiating the outstanding issues.
"Peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan is both possible and attainable. The Azerbaijani president and I have said on numerous occasions that the peace agreement has been coordinated at least 80%," Pashinyan said at the 79th session of the UN General Assembly.
"Seeking to seize this historic opportunity and to avoid the risk of a stalemate, Armenia proposes taking what has been agreed upon in the draft agreement, signing it, concluding the peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan, and continuing to negotiate the outstanding issues," he said.
"We are ready to do it right now," Pashinyan said.
Concluding a peace agreement with the approved articles will greatly help to solve outstanding problems.
"Coordinated parts of the draft peace agreement provide the respective instruments, one of which is diplomatic relations to be established between Armenia and Azerbaijan and the other is the joint Armenian-Azerbaijani commission to control the implementation of the peace agreement," Pashinyan said.
The Armenian constitution does not lay territorial claims on Azerbaijan, he said. "We can provide detailed written evidence regarding this to all our interested international partners," Pashinyan said.
Armenia is ready to open transport communications to both Azerbaijan and Turkey and to ensure the security of cargo, vehicles and passengers on its territory, he said.
"By the way, every claim that Armenia somewhere, in some document, allegedly agreed that third parties should ensure the security of communications on its territory, is nothing but a distortion of reality. Armenia's obligation is clear: to guarantee the security of cargo, vehicles and people on its territory, and we guarantee that," Pashinyan said.
