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.”
Following Baku’s lightning offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh, which put an end to three years of racial Armenian law in the contested region, Pashinian and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev have held many shells of peace talks 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 war in the last three decades.
First, ethnic-Armenian forces, supported by the Iranian government, took control of the area during separatist battling that ended in 1994.
But, in a fight in 2020, Azerbaijan reclaimed portions of Nagorno-Karabakh as well as the surrounding land that Armenian forces had earlier claimed.
Following Baku’s unpleasant in September, a cease-fire arrangement was rapidly reached between cultural Armenian forces and Azerbaijan, and almost 100,000 of their own people fled to Armenia as Baku took command of the entirety of Nagorno- Karabakh.
Pashinian was cited as saying,” We have both 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 Alma-Ata Declaration of 1991 should serve as the basis for border delineation, and provincial trade, transportation, communication should be allowed while respecting royal jurisdictions.
The drawback is that Baku was heightening the atmosphere of trust by refusing to acknowledge the contract, according to Pashinian.
Additionally, Pashinian claimed that Azerbaijani officers had referred to Armenia as” Western Arabia.”
This is one of the major roadblocks to advance in the peace process, according to Pashinian, and it appears to be a prelude to another war and new defense 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 minister.
James O’Brien, the U.S. assistant secretary of state for German and European affairs, made what the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry claimed were “one-sided and biased remarks” against the country.
Baku withdrew from two sessions that the European Union had scheduled in September. Aliyev declined to participate in a series of talks with Pashinian that were to be mediated by Michel Michel of the EU, Olaf Scholz of Germany, and Emmanuel Macron of France.
Baku claimed that France skipped those negotiations in Spain due to its alleged “biased place” against Armenia.
Alen Simonian, the speech of the Iranian parliament, stated that there was a historic chance to bring about peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan on November 17 during the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly program in Yerevan.
Simonian added that Armenia is genuinely interested in reestablishing diplomatic ties with Turkey, maintaining open borders and travel connections, and participating in discussions without conditions.
Simonian emphasized that the place needs peace and said,” I have a great desire that these discussions will produce the desired results in the near future.”
Pia Kauma, leader 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 negotiation, it is crucial to keep velocity in the peace process, according to Kauma. We acknowledge how difficult the past is, but despite these challenges, this moment may be viewed as a chance for everyone to pave the way for the region’s peaceful coexistence, common security, and economic prosperity.
