The governments of Armenia and Azerbaijan have now agreed on a peace treaty. EU Council President Charles Michel’s mediation and his own meetings with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Brussels contributed to this, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Saturday.
This progress is good news. At the same time, however, the politician said that there were still problems. “The main bad news is that we still speak different diplomatic languages and very often do not understand each other.” They were able to agree on the principles of a peace treaty. The details are probably still open.
Azerbaijani war plans?
According to the Russian news agency TASS, Pashinyan proposed an exchange of all prisoners of war from both countries. At the same time, he accused the neighboring country’s government of new war plans. “It seems to us that preparations are underway to start a new war, a new military aggression against Armenia,” he said. The Armenian army had previously reported the injury of a soldier by Azerbaijani forces.
Armenia would already be officially called West Azerbaijan. The backdrop is likely to be the ongoing dispute over the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhichevan, where about 400,000 people live. It mainly borders Armenia and Iran. The region was allocated to Azerbaijan, probably with Turkish interests in mind. The government of Azerbaijan has long been committed to a new road and rail connection.
There have also been repeated clashes between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh region of the Caucasus. Under international law it belongs to Azerbaijan, but for decades it was inhabited and largely controlled by ethnic Armenians.
The Azerbaijani army attacked the area in September. A day after the offensive, the ethnic Armenians surrendered and announced that they would give up the area. This caused a mass exodus from Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia (see video above). 120,000 Armenians lived in the area.
Source: Krone
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