Azerbaijan and Armenia announced on Thursday that they had concluded talks to resolve their decades-long conflict, with both sides agreeing on the text of a potential treaty.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have both repeatedly stated that a comprehensive peace deal to end their long-standing conflict is within reach. However, previous negotiations failed to achieve consensus on a draft agreement. Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov told reporters:
The negotiation process on the text of the peace agreement with Armenia has been concluded. Armenia has accepted Azerbaijan’s proposals on the two previously unresolved articles of the peace treaty.
Both sides have now finalized the text of the proposed treaty.
Armenia’s foreign ministry later confirmed this in a statement:
Negotiations on the draft agreement have been concluded. The Peace Agreement is ready for signing.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan welcomed the development, calling it an “important event” and stating that Yerevan is “ready to begin discussions on the place and time for signing the peace agreement”:
We believe this text is a compromise, as a peace agreement should be.
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