Blinken’s conversation with Aliyev and Pashinyan about the peace process

According to the report of Fars News Agency International Group, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken discussed efforts to reach a peace agreement between the two countries in separate phone calls with the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Prime Minister of Armenia on Monday.

According to “Anatolia” news agency, in a conversation with the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, Blinken “welcomed his commitment to conclude a lasting peace agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia”. .

According to US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller, Blinken in this call mentioned recent concerns in the relations between Washington and Baku, as well as opportunities to strengthen cooperation, especially He discussed the peace process and the importance of high-level interaction.

According to the statement of the US Department of State, Blinken spoke to Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan about “US support for efforts to reach a lasting and dignified peace agreement between Baku and Yerevan He talked.

According to Miller’s statement, the US Secretary of State emphasized the continuous support of the United States for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Armenia and explained the efforts to increase bilateral cooperation with Armenia.

The two neighboring republics of Azerbaijan and Armenia have been fighting over the Nagorno-Karabakh region for three decades. The two countries do not have diplomatic relations and their common border is extremely strong.

In September, the Republic of Azerbaijan launched a lightning operation to take back this region, which is internationally recognized as belonging to Baku, but controlled by Armenians under the protection of Armenia since the 1990s. Did. This operation led to mass exodus of almost 120,000 Armenians from Karabakh to Armenia. The two countries have since expressed their desire to sign a peace agreement, although no tangible progress has yet been made.

The delegations of the two countries are expected to discuss border demarcation issues on November 30 (Thursday, December 9). The Prime Minister of Armenia claimed in a press conference on Saturday that it is not clear whether the Republic of Azerbaijan will repeat its commitments to sign the peace treaty based on three principles.

He said: These three principles were agreed upon during the negotiations, and the first principle is that Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan recognize each other’s territorial integrity on the basis that the area of ​​Armenia is 29,800 square kilometers and the Republic of Azerbaijan is 86,600 square kilometers.

According to him, the second principle is that the Alma-Ata declaration should be the political basis for border delimitation, and the third principle is that regional communication should be unblocked.

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