Armenia offers peace treaty project to Azerbaijan

The settlement would offer for monitoring mechanisms designed to forestall conflict within the Nagorno-Karabakh area.

A service member of the Russian peacekeeping troops stands subsequent to a navy car on the Dadivank, an Armenian Apostolic Church monastery, positioned in a territory which is quickly to be turned over to Azerbaijan underneath a peace deal that adopted the combating over the Nagorno-Karabakh area, within the Kalbajar district, November 15, 2020 [File: Reuters]

Armenia has offered Azerbaijan with a mission for a full peace treaty to finish the decades-long dispute over the Nagorno-Karabakh area, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated.

The 2 former Soviet republics have been locked in a state of battle over the mountainous space, which lies in Azerbaijan however whose inhabitants is essentially Armenian.

An settlement would offer for monitoring mechanisms by each side to forestall breaches of the peace deal, stated Pashinyan.

He advised a cupboard assembly on Thursday that Yerevan had accomplished “one other stage of engaged on a mission of a peace treaty and on establishing [diplomatic] relations” with Baku.

“A mission of a complete settlement had been handed to Azerbaijan,” he stated.

“The doc needs to be acceptable to Azerbaijan … its signing should carry a couple of lasting peace.”

Copies have been despatched to Group for Safety and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) members Russia, america and France. These international locations are co-chairs of the Minsk Group arrange by the OSCE in 1992 to hunt a peaceable answer to the ethnic battle.

The 2 Caucasus neighbours have fought two wars for management of Azerbaijan’s Armenian-populated enclave which have claimed tens of hundreds of lives.

Internationally-mediated peace talks between the international locations have since produced little end result.

Final month, Russia blamed Armenia for a breakdown in peace talks with Azerbaijan, within the newest signal of friction between Moscow and Yerevan over the battle.

Thursday’s announcement got here after Yerevan accused Baku of conducting a “coverage of ethnic cleaning” and forcing ethnic Armenians to depart the breakaway area.

Since mid-December, a gaggle of self-styled Azerbaijani environmental activists has barred the one highway linking Karabakh to Armenia to protest what they are saying is unlawful mining.

In keeping with Yerevan, the blockade has led to a “full-blown humanitarian disaster” within the mountainous area which faces shortages of meals, medicines, and gasoline.

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, ethnic Armenian separatists in Karabakh broke away from Azerbaijan. About 30,000 individuals have been killed within the ensuing battle.

One other flare-up in violence in 2020 killed greater than 6,500 individuals and ended with a Russian-brokered truce that noticed Armenia cede territories it had managed for many years.