Baku. TurkicWorld:
Azerbaijan reaffirms its commitment to achieving a lasting peace with Armenia, said Elchin Amirbayov, Special Representative of the President of Azerbaijan for Special Assignments, in an interview with writer and historian Carlo Marino, TurkicWorld reports.
“We are grateful to the Holy See for its interest in this topic and for supporting the peace agenda presented by Azerbaijan to normalize relations with our neighbors, the Armenians. As you may know, the bilateral talks between our two countries aimed at finalizing a peace agreement have entered a crucial final stage. I am here to reaffirm Azerbaijan’s strong commitment to achieving a lasting, credible, and irreversible peace with Armenia,” he said.
The official pointed out that to achieve this goal, it is important to ensure that the future peace agreement makes any return to territorial claims, aggression, or military conflict completely impossible, even theoretically.
“Azerbaijan has suffered enough from this plague and wants to prevent a repetition of this scenario in the future. For this, Armenia must urgently address the obvious territorial claim embedded in its current Constitution regarding a part of Azerbaijan’s sovereign territory,” he added.
“Denying the significance of this critical obstacle to peace and opting for simplistic shortcuts to sign an agreement at any cost, Armenia seems to ignore the elephant in the room. It attempts to brush aside the underlying reasons for decades of rivalry and confrontation between our countries. The ball is now in Armenia’s court, and we hope that this historic opportunity to turn the page is not wasted,” Elchin Amirbayov concluded.
