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Ruben Rubinyan
Yerevan rejects Baku's proposal for a peace treaty
Baku/01.07.21/Turan: Armenia will not sign any peace treaty with Azerbaijan under pressure; this is out of the question. Ruben Rubinyan, head of the parliamentary commission on foreign affairs, candidate for the post of Armenian Foreign Minister, said this in an interview with Sputnik Armenia.
Thus, he responded to yesterday's statement by Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov, who called on Yerevan to begin the process of normalizing relations "on the basis of inviolability of borders and respect for territorial integrity."
Rubinyan said that Armenia "will gladly sign a document with Azerbaijan" if Baku recognizes the status of Nagorno-Karabakh based on the will of the people of Karabakh.
He ruled out a scenario in which Yerevan automatically recognizes the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan. In his opinion, new realities in the region that make impossible Azerbaijan's new aggression. Among others, this is the presence of Russian peacekeepers in Karabakh.
In addition, the international community, represented by the Minsk Group, believes that the issue of the status of Karabakh remains open and the conflict has not been resolved. -02D-
Politics
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Voting in the early elections to the Milli Majlis of Azerbaijan began at 8:00. Voting is taking place at 6,478 polling stations throughout Azerbaijan, including the lands liberated from occupation. 990 candidates are competing for 125 seats in the unicameral parliament.
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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 31, Azerbaijan observes a "day of silence" before the Sunday’s early parliamentary elections for the unicameral Milli Majlis. All electoral campaigning is prohibited 24 hours before the voting. The early elections were initiated by the ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party. This decision was motivated by the overlap of the scheduled elections in November with the global UN forum - the COP20 climate conference taking place in Baku.
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