The Foreign Minister of TurkeyMevlut Cavusoglu, said that Azerbaijan Y Armenia have reached an agreement on essential points of a peace agreement after the armed conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh that has confronted both countries for decades.
“Agreement was reached on the main points. There were five of them. This includes the recognition of the territorial integrity of each one, the demarcation of borders, etc. All that remains is to implement them”, said Cavusoglu in an interview with the Turkish media tv net.
According to Cavusoglu, the process of normalizing relations between Turkey and Armenia, which do not have diplomatic relations, and the negotiations on the peace treaty between Baku and Yerevan cannot proceed separately.
“We have talked about this many times”said Turkey’s foreign minister, adding that Ankara is “sincere” in its desire to normalize ties with Armenia.
NORMALIZATION OF TURKISH-ARMENIAN RELATIONS
Turkey and Armenia agreed last year initiate talks aimed at putting behind decades of disputes and reopening their border. Special envoys appointed by the two countries have held four rounds of talks since then. The talks have resulted in an agreement to resume charter flights between istanbulthe largest city in Turkey, and Yerevanthe Armenian capital.
The Turkish foreign minister also said that the meeting between the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian in Prague on October 6 within the framework of a summit of the European Political Community was “positive”. At the summit, Pashinyan also met with the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliev.
Turkeya close ally of Azerbaijan, a country with which it maintains close cultural and economic ties, closed its border with Armenia in 1993 in a show of solidarity with Baku, which was locked in a conflict with Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
In 2020, Turkey strongly supported Azerbaijan in a six-day war with Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh, which concluded with a Russian-brokered peace deal that gave Azerbaijan control over a significant part of the region.
Turkey and Armenia also have more than a century of hostility over the gonocide of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians in massacres, deportations and forced marches that began in 1915 in Ottoman Turkey.
The one now is second attempt at reconciliation between the two nationsafter an agreement in 2009 to establish formal relations and open borders that was never ratified, by the strong Azerbaijani opposition.
US-ARMENIAN CONVERSATION
The Turkish statements come a day after a conversation between the US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken Y Pashinyan, in which they have addressed the steps that Armenia and Azerbaijan are taking in order to reach a “sustainable” peace agreement.
Blinken was in favor of a clear delimitation of borderstransport links, recovery and identification of missing persons, as well as the return of detainees and other matters between Armenia and Azerbaijan, as reported by the State Department in a statement.
For his part, the Armenian Prime Minister praised the efforts of the American side aimed at “eliminate the consequences of the aggression undertaken by the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan”.
Pashinian has highlighted the constant steps of the United States in “that direction”, emphasizing the need for withdrawal of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan from the sovereign Armenian territory and the unconditional maintenance of the ceasefire regime.
Blinken and Pashinian have referred to the agreement reached by Armenia and Azerbaijan last weekmediated by France and the European Union, for the mutual recognition of borders according to the UN Charter and 1991.
TENSION IN NAGORNO-KARABAKH
The tension between Armenia and Azerbaijan intensified after the azerbaijani army resumed in August attacks against Armenian border territories despite ceasefire in force in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Archenemies Armenia and Azerbaijan fought two wars, in 2020 and in the 1990s, over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh of Azerbaijan, populated by Armenians.
Six weeks of fighting in the fall of 2020 paid off more than 6500 lives and ended with a Russian-brokered ceasefire agreement.
Armenia ceded swathes of territory it had controlled for decades Y Russia deployed some 2,000 peacekeepers to oversee the fragile truce, but tensions persist despite a ceasefire agreement.
The agreement signed with the mediation of Russia stipulates that in three years the parties must agree on “the construction plan of a new transit route” in the Lachin corridor.
Armenia states that it has already proposed to coordinate and sign in a trilateral format (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia) a new planbut this initiative has not yet materialized on paper.
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Source-www.infobae.com