Pashinyan offers Baku to start relations ‘from a new page’

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said during a speech at the Atlantic Council, which he attended as part of a working visit to the United States, that he offered the Azerbaijani side to start bilateral relations “from a new page.”

“Our proposal is to end further discussions on the conflicting topics and to open a new era in bilateral relations starting from a new and empty and clear page,” he said.

According to Pashinyan, the sides managed to agree on sensitive topics in the draft peace agreement. “Armenia and Azerbaijan have agreed to recognize each other’s territorial integrity, based on the borders of Soviet Armenia and Soviet Azerbaijan. We agreed that Armenia and Azerbaijan have no territorial claims against each other and will not raise such claims in the future,” he said.

The prime minister added that peace is within reach, and now all that is needed is political will to finalize the draft peace agreement and achieve lasting peace.