Azerbaijan is waiting for Armenia’s response to its comments on latest draft proposals, says Azerbaijani official

Azerbaijan has submitted the five principles of the draft agreement to the Armenian side, Elchin Amirbekov, the special ambassador to the Azerbaijani president, told the Guardian.

“Azerbaijan is now waiting for Armenia’s response to its comments on the latest draft proposals.

What is important to understand is that at this crucial stage in negotiations, where apparently we’re not that much far away from the final agreement, [is that] we do need a result-oriented exercise,” he said.

Amirbekov noted that the five principles in the draft agreement are “mutual respect for each other’s territorial integrity, sovereignty and inviolability of international recognised borders, rejection of any territorial claims to each other, now and in the future, rejection of any acts that would run counter to UN charter, like the use of force or threat of use of force, but also delimitation of the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which has never been done.”

He added that, in practice, the issue of border demarcation might be settled at a later stage since the negotiations are deemed so complex.