Azerbaijan delays peace conclusion - Armenian Parliament Speaker
Baku/07.12.23/Turan: Armenian Parliament Speaker Alen Simonyan accused Azerbaijan of seeking to complicate the conclusion of a peace treaty with Armenia. He said this to reporters commenting on yesterday's statement by President Ilham Aliyev that if the issue of Karabakh Armenians is included in the peace treaty, the issue of Azerbaijanis' right to return to Armenia should also be included there.
"I think Azerbaijan is trying to include issues that can make it difficult to conclude a peace treaty. I assess this very negatively," Simonyan emphasized.
According to him, Baku should change its anti-Armenian rhetoric. "I do not rule out that Armenians will go to live in Azerbaijan and Azerbaijanis will come to live in Armenia and trade with each other. We are going to peace, there is no other way. England and France fought for 116 years, and today England and France are allies," Simonyan said. -0-
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Armenia is not against the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group, but does not consider it appropriate to discuss this issue now. "In the context of peace, we consider it possible to make a decision on the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group. When peace is an established fact, the existence of such a format may raise questions," Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at a press conference today. "The whole question is about the timing, we need to understand how effectively and correctly to turn such topics into a subject of discussion right now," the Armenian Prime Minister added.
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He expressed his willingness to meet with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at the border between the two countries. "A meeting with Ilham Aliyev could take place at the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. I am open to such a format," Pashinyan said at a press conference today. According to Pashinyan, Armenia recently presented another proposal for a peace treaty to Azerbaijan.
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On August 30, at approximately 22:55, the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant in Metsamor was disconnected from the country's power grid, as reported by the Armenian Ministry of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure. The shutdown was caused by a lightning strike, which triggered the plant's safety systems to switch the station to a safe shutdown mode. Currently, the plant's staff is working on restarting the facility.
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