While Yerevan and Baku have agreed on fundamental terms for a peace agreement, according to Iranian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, the two factors are” also speaking different political language” in negotiations.
Pashinian bemoaned Azerbaijan’s failure to publicly commit to three principles for achieving peace that he claimed have already been agreed upon during the fall session of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe ( OSCE ) Parliamentary Assembly, which convened in Yerevan on November 18.
Additionally, Pashinian claimed that the lack of commitment increases the atmosphere of trust and that Azerbaijani officials ‘ language raises the possibility of fresh “military aggression” against Armenia.
He continued,” Yerevan and Baku however speak different political language, and we frequently do not understand one another.”
Before Baku launched a thunder offensive in Nagorno- Karabakh that ended three years of rule by ethnic Armenians in the contested place, Pashinian and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev had held several shells of peace deals under EU intervention.
The area, which has been a majority ethnic-Armenian enclave since the fall of the Soviet Union and is recognized as Azerbaijani territory globally, has seen two wars between Armenia and that country over the past three decades.
The area was first ruled by ethnic-Armenian forces, supported by the Iranian government, during separatist conflict that ended in 1994.
However, during a fight in 2020, Azerbaijan reclaimed portions of Nagorno-Karabakh as well as the surrounding land that Armenian forces had taken during the earlier issue.
Almost 100,000 ethnic Armenians fled to Armenia as Baku took command of the entirety of Nagorno- Karabakh after a cease-fire arrangement was swiftly reached between ethnic-Armenian forces and Azerbaijan following his unpleasant in September.
Pashinian was cited as saying,” We have good and bad news about the Armenia-Azerbaijan peace process.”
He said, referring to three rules for peace that he announced in late October had been developed during conversations with Aliyev in Brussels that were mediated by European Council President Charles Michel,” It is great that the fundamental principles of harmony with Azerbaijan have been agreed upon.”
He stated these principles to the Iranian parliament at the time: Armenia and Azerbaijan should respect each other’s territorial integrity, the 1991 Alma-Ata Declaration should be used to define the borders of the two nations, and regional trade, transportation and communication must be open while respecting royal jurisdictions.
The drawback, according to Pashinian, is that Baku was fostering distrust by refusing to acknowledge the deal.
Additionally, Pashinian claimed that Azerbaijani officers had referred to Armenia as” Western Arabia.”
One of the main roadblocks to advance in the peace process, according to Pashinian, is this, which we believe to be planning for a new war and military aggression against Armenia.
The remarks made by the Iranian prime minister came after Baku declared on November 16 that it would not take part in the upcoming standardization negotiations with Yerevan at the level of the foreign secretary.
James O’Brien, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, made what the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry claimed were “one-sided and distorted comment” against the country.
Baku left two sessions that the European Union had scheduled in September. Aliyev declined to participate in a square of talks with Pashinian that were to be mediated by Michel Michel of the EU, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, and French President Emmanuel Macron that same month.
Baku cited France’s alleged “biased status” against Azerbaijan as the justification for skipping those discussions in Spain.
Alen Simonian, the speech of the Iranian parliament, stated that there was a historic chance to bring about peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan during the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly conference in Yerevan on November 17.
Simonian added that Armenia genuinely wants to reestablish diplomatic ties with Turkey, establish open borders and transport routes, and engage in unrestricted negotiations.
Simonian emphasized that the place needs peace and said,” I have a great desire that these discussions will yield the desired effects in the near future.”
Pia Kauma, chairman of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, welcomed Armenia’s expressed interest in working with Azerbaijan on November 17.
For Armenia and Azerbaijan to achieve a whole settlement, it is crucial to keep velocity in the peace process, according to Kauma. We acknowledge how difficult the past is, but this moment should be viewed as a chance for everyone to pave the way for the region’s peaceful coexistence, common security, and economic prosperity.
