Aliyev points out unresolved issues in peace talks with Armenia

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 18, ARMENPRESS. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has pointed out two of the 17 terms of the would-be peace treaty with Armenia that have yet to be resolved.

“We’ve actually had big progress in terms of the peace treaty,” Aliyev told RIA Novosti. “15 of the 17 articles of the document are agreed upon, and two are left. One of them pertains to refraining from filing international lawsuits against each other, the other is about not deploying representatives of other countries on our border.”

Armenian FM Ararat Mirzoyan had also recently announced that 15 of the 17 articles have been agreed upon.

In an earlier interview, PM Nikol Pashinyan had addressed Azerbaijan’s demands on the withdrawal of the European Union’s civilian monitoring mission in Armenia. The Armenian PM said he had offered Azerbaijan to regulate the matter in terms of the parts of the border that have already been delimitated. Those parts, according to the PM, do not require monitoring. The offer has so far remained unanswered.