Azerbaijan wants to sign a peace deal not with Pashinyan but with Armenia — Elchin Amirbayov

 
Elchin Amirbayov, the special envoy of the president of Azerbaijan, said in an interview with Berliner Zeitung that Azerbaijan wants to sign a peace agreement not with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan but with Armenia, and that the Armenian side’s proposal to sign a “half-finished peace agreement” is not only unrealistic and unacceptable but also misleading. 

According to him, the parties still need to agree on several important provisions of the draft agreement, without which the document will be rough and incomplete.

“The main obstacle on the way to peace is the still existing territorial claims of Armenia to the internationally recognized sovereign territory of Azerbaijan, reflected in the Constitution of Armenia, and ignoring this main issue is equivalent to not noticing the elephant in the room.

Armenia wants to mislead the international community by creating a false impression that it is constructively involved in the peace process, but in reality it is dragging out time and leading the peace process to a dead end,” Amirbayov said.

Amirbayov added that official Baku still attaches great importance to the opening of the “Zangezur corridor”. 

“We still strongly support this idea, but we do not want to give anyone the chance to claim we are using this as a dealbreaker,” he said.