Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Ceyhun Bayramov has said that the Armenian authorities must demonstrate a political will for achieving peace in the region.
Bayramov made the remarks at the Diplomatic Forum in Antalya (Turkey) on June 19.
The minister reminded that Azerbaijan has repeatedly called on Armenia to sign a peace agreement, stressing that “this is a political two-way process. To achieve it, bilateral measures are needed.”
“We were calling and are calling on Armenia to a peace agreement… There have never been such cases in history when one of the parties to the conflict provided the other party with a ready-made peace agreement and asked to sign it,” Bayramov stressed.
The minister noted that Azerbaijan’s proposal to improve relations remains relevant, but the Armenian side does not accept it.
He also criticized the use of term “Nagorno-Karabakh conflict”, reminding that the conflict was over after the November 10 trilateral statement that ended the six-week-war between the two countries in autumn 2020.
The war in 2020, referred to the Second Karabakh War, saw Azerbaijan liberate most of its Nagorno-Karabakh region as well as the seven adjacent regions that Armenian had kept as a buffer zone since the war in the early 1990s.
