Armenia is ready to recognize the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan if Baku guarantees the safety of its ethnic Armenian population, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan was quoted as saying by Russian and Armenian media on Monday. .
Nagorno-Karabakh has been a source of conflict between the two Caucasian neighbors since the years leading up to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, and between ethnic Armenians and Azerbaijani Turks for over a century.
In 2020, Azerbaijan took control of areas that were controlled by ethnic Armenians in and around the mountainous enclave and has since periodically closed the only access road connecting Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia, which the enclave depends on for support. financial and military.
“The 86,600 square kilometers of Azerbaijan’s territory includes Nagorno-Karabakh,” Pashinyan said at a press conference.
“If we understand ourselves correctly, Armenia recognizes the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan within the named boundaries, and Baku – the territorial integrity of Armenia within 29,800 square kilometers.”
The agency quoted him as saying it was prepared to do this – in effect accept Azerbaijan’s internationally recognized borders – if the rights of Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh were guaranteed. He said that the matter should be discussed in conversations between the two countries.
“Armenia remains committed to the peace agenda in the region. And we hope that in the near future we will agree on the text of the peace treaty and be able to sign it,” he said, according to Russian State News. Tass agency.
(Posted by Fabio Mendes)
Source: CNN Brasil
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