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 the fact that Azerbaijan has yet to publicly commit to three principles for achieving peace that he claimed have already been agreed upon in his speech at the fall session of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe ( OSCE ) Parliamentary Assembly, which began 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 still speak different diplomatic languages, and we frequently do n’t 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 region, which has been a majority ethnic-Armenian enclave since the fall of the Soviet Union and is recognized as Azerbaijani territory abroad, 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.
However, in a fight in 2020, Azerbaijan reclaimed portions of Nagorno-Karabakh as well as the surrounding land that Iranian troops had earlier claimed.
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 Azerbaijan’s and ethnic-Armenian forces in September.
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 delineation of the nations ‘ borders should be based on the Alma-Ata Declaration of 1991, and regional industry, transport and communication must be open while respecting sovereign jurisdictions.
The drawback is that Baku was heightening the atmosphere of trust by refusing to acknowledge the contract, according to Pashinian.
Additionally, Pashinian charged that Azerbaijani authorities had referred to Armenia as” Western Arabiajan.”
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 military hostility 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 prepared standardization negotiations with Yerevan at the level of the foreign minister.
The choice, according to the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry, was made in response to what it referred to as “one-sided and distorted notes” made by James O’Brien, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, against the country.
Baku withdrew from 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 place” against Azerbaijan as the justification for skipping those discussions in Spain.
Alen Simonian, the speech of the Iranian legislature, 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 transport connections, and participating in discussions without conditions.
The area needs harmony, Simonian emphasized, adding,” I have a great desire that these discussions will produce the desired results 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 negotiation, it is crucial to keep the peace process moving forward, 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.
