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United States, but the Azerbaijani side rejected “The republic of Armenia remains
these offers. So far, they are reluctant. But we
believe we need to meet and we need to talk committed to the political goal
if we want to finalize the text of the peace
treaty the principles of which are accepted by of normalizing relations with
Armenia, sometimes by Azerbaijan, but also
by the mediators and the parties more or less its neighbours, Azerbaijan and
involved in the negotiation processes.

They are trying to support the establishment Türkiye in particular.”
of peace and stability in our region. So, just
to reiterate: the Republic of Armenia remains
committed to the political goal of normalizing
relations with its neighbours, Azerbaijan and
Türkiye in particular. the opening of these lines of communications.
We call the project Crossroads of Peace,
Regarding the Armenia-Azerbaijan track, we because we believe that economic cooperation
believe that we have at least a few indisputable and interdependence, interconnectivity in
principles. The first is that each other’s the region, could underpin stability in our
territorial integrity, sovereignty, must be region. And with this, we want to relaunch
recognized and respected without any further and reconstruct communication not only
ambiguity, which means that we need a clear, with Azerbaijan but also with Türkiye, which
mutually recognized border between Armenia will be beneficial for all the countries of the
and Azerbaijan. For this, there are the Almaty region.
Protocol and the subsequent declaration of
1991, signed at the time of the dissolution It will immensely help to connect the Black Sea
of USSR, which established that the former with the Persian Gulf, and the Mediterranean
Soviet republics would maintain the existing Sea with the Caspian Sea and beyond, going
administrative borders between them as to Central Asia and more to the east. Armenia
interstate borders. is very keen to implement this project.

We want to settle this border based on the Of course, we are also facing humanitarian
Almaty Declaration and conduct a further issues due to the ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-
delimitation process based on the most recent Karabakh. There are more than 105,000
maps, which, in fact, present the situation and refugees who were forced into this situation
the exact border of the 1991. in a just a couple of days. In addition to these
people, there are 26,000 Nagorno-Karabakh
Another principle for us is that the opening Armenians who came to Armenia after the
of communications in our region shall be 2020 war. The government of Armenia is
conducted with full respect to sovereignty trying to address all their needs and assure
and the jurisdiction of the states where this their rights. And in this regard, the legally
communication is happening. And this must binding decision of the International Court of
be based on the principles of equality and Justice of November 2017 is very important.
reciprocity, for we have concerns that Azerbaijan
is raising claims for an extraterritorial border, I’ve heard that you withdrew your candidature
which is totally unacceptable for us. for the COP 28 in order to support Azerbaijan’s
candidature. Isn’t that a very good step
Being a landlocked country, we are very forward as a gesture of good will?
interested in opening up communications. This was part of the agreement on the release
That’s why we took a step further. The Prime of detainees and prisoners of war. It’s a positive
Minister of Armenia and the government of sign, at the least. It’s a confidence-building
Armenia introduced our vision, how we see measure.

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