Huge work has been done during recent 2-3 years despite all the challenges of escalations and attacks on the Armenian territory, Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said on the sidelines of the Warsaw Security Forum.

“We, the Armenian side, have been very constructive during the negotiations. You know, there is good news and bad news here. 

The good news is that we succeeded, we somehow managed to have some success with the Azerbaijani side. For instance, recently we adopted the first ever legal document between the 2 countries, we adopted the regulation on the joint work of the respective border commissions. These commissions work on delimitation of the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan. In this document we managed to agree that the basis of the delimitation process should be the Alma-Ata Declaration of 1991 which is quite an achievement. Not to overload you with the details, I will only say that among other things, the Alma-Ata Declaration of 1991 was adopted by 12 former Soviet Union Republics. So, according to this document, the Republics recognized that the former administrative borders between us, Soviet Socialist Republics, became internationally recognized, inter-state borders. This means that we have a border with Azerbaijan, while starting delimiting this border we have solid ground, solid basis,’’ said the Foreign Minister.

“The bad news is that there are some other topics that we are negotiating around, for instance, the more comprehensive document, the peace treaty.

 Imagine, we have a situation when we have almost completed and finalized the text of the peace treaty, there is the draft but we don’t sign it,’’ said Mirzoyan, noting that the Azerbaijani side is reluctant to sign this peace document, peace agreement for some reasons. 

“For some calculations they come up with new and new preconditions each time and we see that they don’t want to sign the document. This time they say that there are more things that could be agreed but we believe that there is no single agreement in the world between any two countries that regulates all the aspects, all the spheres of their relations, meanwhile we can sign this very serious document and then continue negotiating the remaining issues. We don’t see this political will from Azerbaijani side,” the Foreign Minister said.

Published by Armenpress, original at https://armenpress.am/en/article/1201324