Yerevan does not yet know if Baku's latest proposals are acceptable to them or not

Baku/06.12.22/Turan: It is too early to say whether the proposals of the Azerbaijani side on a peace treaty for Armenia are acceptable or not, the head of the Armenian parliamentary commission on foreign relations Eduard Aghajanyan stated. The talk is about  a draft peace treaty, which was prepared by Baku and presented to Yerevan, stated yesterday in Moscow by Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov at a joint press conference with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

"First, we received proposals from the Azerbaijani side, after which we submitted our comments and, for the third time, received a response. That is, the talk is about working on a text with a single basis. Since the text is at the working stage, it is too early to say at the moment - the proposals are acceptable, or not," Sputnik-Armenia quoted Aghajanyan. According to him, Azerbaijan has not stated that the proposals of the Armenian side are unacceptable for Baku.

In March of this year, Azerbaijan put forward five principles for resolving the conflict:

- mutual recognition of sovereignty, territorial integrity, inviolability of international borders and political independence of each other;

- mutual confirmation of the absence of territorial claims of states against each other and a legal obligation not to make such claims in the future;

- refrain from threatening each other's security in interstate relations, from using threats and force against political independence and territorial integrity, as well as from other circumstances incompatible with the purposes of the UN Charter;

- delimitation and demarcation of the state border, establishment of diplomatic relations;

- the opening of transport and communications, the establishment of other relevant communications and cooperation in other areas of mutual interest.

Yerevan replied that it accepts them with the proviso that the issue of determining the status of Karabakh should be added here. Baku rejected this, saying that it would not discuss the status, but would guarantee the rights and security of the Karabakh Armenians.

At a press conference in Moscow, Lavrov actually supported this position of Baku, saying that Baku guarantees the rights and security of the Armenian population of Karabakh. ---02D---