YEREVAN (Azatutyun.am)—Azerbaijan insisted on Friday that Armenia must recognize its territorial integrity and sovereignty over Nagorno-Karabakh through a “peace treaty” proposed by Baku.
Senior Azerbaijani officials complained that Yerevan has still not accepted the proposal made after last year’s war in Karabakh.
“Our proposal is very clear: Armenia must respect neighbors’ sovereignty and territorial integrity. This would help it to get out of an economic and transport deadlock and become a thriving regional country,” Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov said during an international conference held in the Azerbaijani capital.
In a clear reference to Karabakh, both Bayramov and Hikmet Hajiyev, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s chief foreign policy aide, said the Armenian side must drop its “territorial claims” to Azerbaijan.
Hajiyev echoed Aliyev’s repeated assertions that Baku essentially ended the conflict with its victory in the six-week war stopped by a Russian-brokered ceasefire last November. “The Karabakh issue is no longer a foreign policy issue for Azerbaijan,” he said. “It’s an internal issue.”
Armenian leaders maintain that the conflict remains unresolved, citing joint statements made in recent months by the U.S., Russian and French mediators leading the OSCE Mink Group. They say Karabakh’s internationally recognized status has yet to be determined on the basis of the mediators’ peace proposals.
Some Russian and Armenian media outlets reported last week that that Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to host fresh talks between Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.
Aliqmedia.am claimed that Aliyev and Pashinyan will sign two documents envisaging the demarcation of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border and the opening of transport links between the two South Caucasus states. It said one of those documents will also commit Baku and Yerevan to recognizing each other’s territorial integrity.
Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan did not rule out afterwards the possibility of an Armenian-Azerbaijani summit while saying that it is not planned yet.
Bayramov and Mirzoyan had separate phone calls with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov earlier this week.
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How can an artificial state of 103 years old invented on occupied Armenian historic territories have territorial integrity? There are many words and adjectives that can be used with artificial Azerbaijan. such as terrorist, criminal, homeless, non-native, racist, fascist, xenophobic, fictitious, incompetent, opportunist, barbaric, sadistic and cowardice, but NEVER integrity! These pseudo-Turkish mutts have no integrity whatsoever.
Anyone who recognizes any part of ancient Armenian territories under the occupation of this fabricated artificial state as part of or within the fake boundaries of this enemy state is a traitor to the Armenian nation. This fictitious state, a Turkish outpost and a gas station disguised as a country, must be broken up and its occupied territories returned to its respective indigenous populations. There should be no place for the fascist Turkish and pseudo-Turkish mutts on these lands. Every attempt, no matter what and how long it takes, must be made to destroy this artificial terrorist state. That is the ONLY way to restore peace to this region.
Perfectly stated! An oil field with a donkey at the helm is not a country. Back to the mountains for these caveman like tatars. Even that donkey’s father was born on Armenian land since there was no Azerbokjan.
@ARARAT!!!!
HOW YOU PLAN TO ACHIEVE WHAT YOU SAY???????? NO UNITY!!!! CORRUPTION!!!! STEELING BILLIONS OF $$$$$!!!!!! LOW POPULATION!!!!!! I AGREE WITH YOUR PLAN BUT YOU KEEP TALKING OUT OF YOUR ASS!!!!!!!! WAKE UP AND SMELL ARMEENIAN COFFEE!!!!!!! ARMEENIA HAVE NO FRIENDS!!!! NO POWER!!!!!! NEEDS TO CHANGE NOW!!!!!!!
HAGOP,
All you do is to criticize while never offering any solution. But I will tell you how you do what I am suggesting. This is what our incompetent corrupt leaders, bunch of slaves to Moscow’s foreign policy, should have done long time ago when they had plenty of opportunities to do so. Thirty years ago when we were victorious and the enemy was at its weakest, we should have created a special secret task force to work with the leaders of various native ethnic groups within artificial Azerbaijan, such as the Talysh, the Lezgis, the Avars, the Tats and the Udis, whose lands are under the occupation of the so-called pseudo-Turkish Azerbaijani tribe. By educating them and opening their eyes to the fact that racist Azerbaijani leaders were deliberately and overwhelmingly sending their non-Azeri men to the battlefield to get killed by the Armenians and as a result reducing their threats towards Azerbaijani leadership and by making enemies out of them and the Armenians who never had any problems with them. By arming them to rise up and free themselves from filthy Azerbaijani occupation and subjugation.
When the leaders of these ethnic groups working against the Azerbaijani leadership were being arrested in Belarus and Russia and turned over to Azerbaijan to rot in their prisons we should have interfered and given them refuge in Armenia and Artsakh. By doing so we could have won the trust of their people and shown them that Armenians were not their enemies but that they were their friends and that Azerbaijani leaders were their real enemies deliberately sending them to the front lines to die. By encouraging them to refuse to serve in the Azerbaijani military and assist them in various ways, militarily in particular, to rise up against the Aliyev regime and overthrow him and free their homelands from occupation. To help these native ethnic groups to create a federation that would be friendly to Armenia and this way removing all threats coming from artificial Azerbaijan which would have ceased to exist as a result of the cooperation between these people and their Armenian friends! That’s how!
@ARARAT
NOW THAT IS AN ANSWER!!!!!! TOO BAD 30 YEARS AGO, LEADERS BEGAN TO STEEL MONEY AND LANDS!!!! IMAGINE IF LEEDERS ACTUALLY LED THE COUNTRY!!!! IMAGINE IF LEEDERS THOUGHT OF THE PEEOPLE FIRST AND THEMSELVES LAST!!! IMAGINE IF THEY UNITE, CREATE STRONG ECONOMY, COLLECT MILLIONS OF $$$$$$ OF TAX TO INVEST IN ARMEENIA, TRAIN ALL POPULATION FROM BABY TO GRANDMA TO USE GUNS!!!!! ARMEEENIA WORSE NOW THEN DURING USSR TIMES!!