Baku ready for peace treaty talks with Yerevan if Armenia accepts 5 basic principles - Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry

BAKU. March 14 (Interfax) - Baku stands ready for substantive and intensive negotiations with Yerevan to sign a peace treaty if Armenia accepts five basic principles, Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesperson Leyla Abdullayeva said.

"Five basic principles for normalizing relations between the two countries were passed on to Yerevan via mediators several days ago. The two countries [Azerbaijan and Armenia] can conclude a peace treaty based on these principles through conducting intensive, substantive, and results-oriented negotiations," Abdullayeva said.

These five basic principles include Azerbaijan's and Armenia's obligations to mutually recognize sovereignty, territorial integrity, inviolability of borders, and political independence from each other; mutually confirm the absence of the states' territorial claims on each other's territory and not to make such claims in the future; refrain from threatening each other's security in inter-state relations, from using threats and force against each other's political independence and territorial integrity, and other objectives inconsistent with the UN Charter goals; delimitate and demarcate the state border and establish diplomatic relations; open transport and other communications and cooperate in other fields of mutual interest, she said.