Azerbaijan and Armenia agree on a peace settlement | EUROtoday

Dhe Armenian and Azerbaijani officers introduced Thursday, March 13, that that they had agreed with a peace settlement to finish nearly 4 many years of battle between the nations of the South Caucasus, a sudden advance in an unstable and sometimes bitter peace course of. The two post-Soviet nations have delivered a sequence of wars for the reason that late Nineteen Eighties, when Haut-Karabakh, a area of Azerbaijan which had on the time a primarily Armenian inhabitants, stated its independence.

The Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated in an announcement on Thursday {that a} mission of a peace settlement with Azerbaijan had been finalized for its half. The peace settlement is able to be signed. The Republic of Armenia is able to begin consultations with the Azerbaijan Republic on the date and place of signature of the settlement.

Read too In Armenia, on the entrance line, with Anahid, 15 years outdatedIn its declaration, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated: “We note with satisfaction that negotiations on the text of the draft peace agreement and the establishment of interstate relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia were concluded. However, the signing calendar of the agreement is uncertain, because Azerbaijan said that a prerequisite for its signature was a modification of the Armenian Constitution, which, according to him, made implicit claims on its territory.

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Armenia denies these allegations, but Prime Minister Nikol Pachinian has said on several occasions in recent months that the country’s founding document had to be replaced and has called for a referendum for this purpose. No date has been set. The Russian news agency Tass quoted Pachinian telling journalists on Thursday that the agreement would prevent third -party countries from deploying along the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

This provision would probably cover a civil monitoring mission of the European Union that Baku has criticized, as well as the Russian border guards who monitor certain parts of the borders of Armenia. The outbreak of hostilities in the late 1980s caused the massive expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Azéris, mainly Muslim, Armenia, and Armenians, mainly Christians, Azerbaijan.

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Peace talks began after the Karabakh resumption by Azerbaijan in September 2023, pushing nearly the entire 100,000 Armenians within the territory to flee to Armenia. Most now stay in Armenia as a refugee. The two events stated they needed to signal a treaty to finish the longtime battle, however the progress has been gradual and the relations, tense.

Their widespread border of 1,000 kilometers is closed and strongly militarized. In January, President Azerbaijani Ilham Aliyev accused Armenia of representing a “fascist” menace which was to be destroyed, in feedback that the Armenian chief certified as attainable try and justify a brand new battle.