Armenia Says It Is “Closer Than Ever to Peace” With Azerbaijan
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan. Photo: X/ @KarinaKarapety8
April 12, 2025 Hour: 2:12 pm
Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan stated this Saturday that his country is “closer than ever” to signing a peace agreement with Azerbaijan and ending the conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave, which has been ongoing for almost 40 years.
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“We are at a point we have never reached before. We are in a situation where there is a draft text for a peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan,” the minister said in an interview with Turkish broadcaster NTV after speaking at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum, which is being held in the Turkish city until tomorrow.
Mirzoyan held a public dialogue with his Azerbaijani counterpart, Jeyhun Bayramov, on Saturday afternoon in one of the Forum’s sessions, entitled ‘Opportunities for Cooperation in the South Caucasus’.
Although both ministers expressed optimism about an agreement, it was also evident that there is still no consensus on Zangezur, the strip of Armenian territory that separates the main part of Azerbaijan from the Nakhichevan enclave, which borders Turkey.
Azerbaijan is demanding a kind of corridor to directly connect the two parts of its territory, but Armenia considers it “unacceptable for Azerbaijan to try to exercise control beyond its borders,” Mirzoyan told NTV.
During the public debate, the Armenian minister stressed that his country had offered a series of computerized control measures to facilitate and accelerate the transit of Azerbaijani goods through its territory as much as possible, but “without receiving a response.”
Even so, the minister assured in the interview that both countries “can already start negotiating the place and date for the signing of the peace agreement.”
Source: EFE