Armenia and Azerbaijan Agree on 13 Points of Historic Peace Treaty

Armenia has agreed on 13 points of the historic peace treaty with Azerbaijan, while two more points have been partially agreed. This was announced by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan during the YEREVAN DIALOGUE 2024 summit. 

‘Recently, you have heard a lot that 80% of the agreement has been agreed upon, and there have been statements about this from various platforms. At the moment, 13 points of the draft and the preamble of the agreement are fully agreed. Another 3 points, consisting of two proposals, have been partially agreed: one of the proposals has been agreed, the other has not,’ Pashinyan said.

According to him, Azerbaijan was offered to sign the already agreed text of the peace agreement.

‘Armenia is proposing to sign what has already been agreed upon, to receive the fundamental document, and then continue discussions on other issues. One of the agreed points provides for a mechanism that will give both sides the opportunity to continue discussions through a joint mechanism,’ Pashinyan said.

He stressed that the draft also provides for the establishment of diplomatic relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

‘I reaffirm my readiness to sign the agreed document on the establishment of peace and relations in the near future,’ the prime minister said.

Earlier, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov said that the Azerbaijani constitution does not contain territorial ambitions towards any neighbouring country, including Armenia. 

‘There are additional criteria that may allow signing a peace agreement. The choice is up to Armenia,’ he said.

Bayramov also put forward the thesis that Armenia should ‘stop its territorial claims against Azerbaijan’. 

‘Attempts to compare the constitutions of Armenia and Azerbaijan are also inappropriate. We informed the Armenian side of this problem two years ago. Azerbaijan did not make it a condition for negotiations, but wanted the issue resolved. They also tried to avoid this problem. At that time, they did not put forward any demands to the Azerbaijani constitution,’ Bayramov concluded.

Azerbaijan presented its proposals for a peace agreement to the Armenian side on 24 June.

The military conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed region began in 1988. According to various sources, more than 30,000 people died as a result. A ceasefire was established only in May 1994, and Russia deployed its military component to the area. 

Although a ceasefire was reached between the parties, it has been violated from time to time.

In September 2023, accusing the local Armenian military forces of Karabakh, where the Russian Federation's ‘peacekeeping contingent’ was stationed, of ‘terrorist acts’, Azerbaijan announced an ‘anti-terrorist operation’ in Nagorno-Karabakh.  The reason for Baku's actions was the mine explosion that killed six Azerbaijanis in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Azerbaijan created ‘humanitarian corridors’ for the evacuation of civilians and declared the need to ‘restore the constitutional order of the Republic of Azerbaijan’.

As a result of the operation, Azerbaijan regained control of the region. At that time, more than 50,000 Armenian citizens from the region who had previously moved there returned to Armenia.

Currently, Armenia is proposing to demarcate the borders according to the latest Soviet maps of 1975, but Azerbaijan is against it, explaining that in the 1970s, the historical lands of Azerbaijan were transferred by the central government of the Soviet Union to Armenia.