Azerbaijan wants to sign a peace treaty not with Pashinyan, but with Armenia

Azerbaijan considers the proposal of Armenia to conclude a peace treaty unrealistic and unacceptable, in which several important articles have not yet been agreed upon. Elchin Amirbekov, the representative of the President of Azerbaijan in charge of special assignments, said this in an interview with the Berliner Zeitung.

Amirbekov, answering the journalist's question about how Baku treats the statement that Armenia is ready to sign a peace treaty with Azerbaijan even tomorrow, emphasized that he doubts the sincerity of this statement.

"Even the proposal to sign an unfinished, incomplete agreement tomorrow is not only unrealistic and unacceptable, but also misleading. The parties still need to agree on several important provisions of the draft contract, which are open, without which the document will be rough and incomplete," he said.

According to Amirbekov, the main obstacle on the way to peace is "the still existing territorial claims of Armenia to the internationally recognized sovereign territory of Azerbaijan, reflected in the Constitution of Armenia", and "ignoring this main issue is equivalent to not noticing the elephant in the room".

"Armenia wants to mislead the international community by creating a false impression that it is constructively involved in the peace process, but in reality it is dragging out time and leading the peace process to a dead end. Obviously, as soon as Armenia started receiving unlimited amounts of diplomatic, economic and military aid from the West, including the EU, the US and individual EU member states, it lost all interest in constructively participating in the negotiations, and it seems that peace with Azerbaijan is no longer possible. it is not a priority for him," he emphasized.

Amirbekov, answering the journalist's question whether the parties have agreed to remove the opening of the "Zangezur Corridor" from the framework of the peace agreement in order to speed up the achievement of the result, and whether it is possible to similarly postpone the amendments to the Armenian Constitution after the signing of the peace agreement, Amirbekov stated. that "it is absolutely wrong to draw a parallel between these two issues, because they are completely different in their importance for achieving lasting peace".

"If we leave the Constitution in its current form, the peace agreement will be short-lived, because any new leadership of Armenia, which is against peace with Azerbaijan, will simply cancel it, citing the agreement's inconsistency with the Constitution, which has the highest legal force. In other words, Azerbaijan wants to make peace not with Prime Minister Pashinyan, but with Armenia," he emphasized.

According to Amirbekov, for this, Azerbaijan cannot leave legal loopholes, which over time could lead to the revival of the conflict and new tragedies, "therefore, the root cause of the long-term Armenian-Azerbaijani confrontation must be eliminated." As for the "Zangezur Corridor", the representative of the President of Azerbaijan added that official Baku still attaches great importance to its opening.

"However, by agreeing to take it out of the framework of the peace agreement, Azerbaijan does not want to be criticized for defeating the peace agreement negotiations," Amirbekov emphasized.