Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan attended the opening ceremony of the "Yerevan Dialogue" international conference. The conference was organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia in collaboration with the Observer Research Foundation of India and features representatives from official, expert, academic, business circles, international organizations, celebrities, opinion leaders, and analysts from over 80 countries.
Nikol Pashinyan delivered a speech in which he stated:. I wish to immediately address the question that is perhaps of the greatest interest to this audience. Is durable and lasting peace in the South Caucasus possible? Is it realistic? This is, of course, a question to be answered by not only the Republic of Armenia. I will try to answer our share of the question, and I will answer it from the standpoint of the Republic of Armenia.
Thus, durable peace in the South Caucasus is not only possible, but also realistic. Let me now present a few points to substantiate our position and justify why I think so. First of course, I need to turn to negotiations on a peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Let me tell you what that means in practice. The Republic of Armenia, taking into account, that the agreed articles of the peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan actually contain internationally accepted core provisions for establishing relations, we propose to take what is currently agreed, to sign it, to have a fundamental document, and then continue the discussions of the other questions, especially because one of the agreed articles of the peace agreement stipulates the mechanism that enables both sides, the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan, to continue the negotiations.
Let alone that the currently agreed part of the peace agreement obviously contains a provision on establishing diplomatic relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Therefore, we have opted for these solutions, we propose this publicly. I want to reiterate my willingness, our willingness to sign in the nearest possible time frame the agreed text of the peace agreement. The next important topic is of course the process of delimitation between the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan. We have had considerable progress here, as manifested in the facts that the relevant commissions of Armenia and Azerbaijan recently signed the regulation on the joint activities of the delimitation commissions.
