In the peace agreement, we should see the foundations on which the border delimitation process should proceed. Ararat Mirzoyan

The final peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan must be anchored on several fundamental principles, so that fertile ground for escalation or aggression is not created in the future. As "Armenpress" informs, Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said this during a joint press conference with Greek Foreign Minister Yorghos Gerapetritis.

Mirzoyan informed that at the end of December last year, Armenia received Azerbaijan's proposals regarding the peace treaty, after which, on January 4, Armenia forwarded its proposals to Azerbaijan.

"Despite the lack of bilateral meetings, there were exchanges of proposals on the peace treaty. We received Azerbaijan's proposals and on January 4 we forwarded the next Armenian proposals. I would say that in terms of the content of the Azerbaijani proposals, we see a certain regression in some parts of the text and a certain progress in some other directions. And we worked very constructively on those proposals and sent our proposals, which I am sure are very constructive," said Mirzoyan.

The minister sees the problem not so much in successive proposals, in the retrogression or progress of this or that article, constructive or non-constructive, but in the principles on which peace should be based.

"Irrespective of whether any specific article of the current proposal is progress or regress, the final peace must necessarily be anchored on several fundamental principles. The countries must recognize each other's territorial integrity without any difference, without any ambiguity. This is the issue where maximum clarity is needed, and the final peace treaty should provide this clarity.

Also, understandably, if the process of border demarcation between countries can take a long time, at least in the peace agreement we should see the clear foundations on which the process of border demarcation should proceed. These are the issues where the Republic of Armenia cannot see and cannot allow any uncertainty. Also because uncertainty is a great basis and fertile ground for further aggressions and escalations.

Therefore, if we establish peace, we establish a peace that will be as difficult as possible to question and violate," Mirzoyan emphasized.

Mirzoyan also presented the next principle, which the Armenian side wants to see in the peace agreement, the unblocking of economic channels and infrastructures of the region, based on fair and fundamental principles.

"Peace is not only the absence of shootings. Peace is also open borders and the movement of goods and people through each other's territory. It is difficult to talk about the establishment of peace in the South Caucasus when Armenia remains under siege.

We are interested in the unblocking of channels, but we are also sure that this unblocking should take place on the basis of some very simple, fundamental and fair principles," concluded Mirzoyan.