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Normalizing ties with Turkey will help build regional peace: Armenia

by Anadolu Agency

MOSCOW Oct 15, 2021 - 4:57 pm GMT+3
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian remotely addresses the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly in a pre-recorded message, Sept. 24, 2021. (AP Photo)
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian remotely addresses the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly in a pre-recorded message, Sept. 24, 2021. (AP Photo)
by Anadolu Agency Oct 15, 2021 4:57 pm

Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said Friday normalizing ties with Turkey would help establish lasting peace in the region and implement the agreements reached last year on the Nagorno-Karabakh region.

Speaking at a meeting of Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) country leaders, Pashinian stressed that normalization between Yerevan and Ankara could accelerate settlement between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

"Starting a conversation with the aim of normalizing our relations with Turkey is another factor that could play the role of a catalyst in this issue," he said, referring to the implementation of agreements on Nagorno-Karabakh.

He also stressed the importance of restoring transportation channels as major milestones toward normalization with Azerbaijan and the implementation of the agreements on Karabakh.

"We hope to achieve concrete results in the near future. This means that Armenia will receive railway and automobile communication with Russia and Iran through the territory of Azerbaijan, and Azerbaijan will receive railway and automobile communication with the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic through the territory of Armenia," he said.

All these steps would serve to lay the groundwork for signing a peace treaty between Azerbaijan and Armenia, Pashinian noted.

"Of course, the main issue is the signing of a peace treaty between Armenia and Azerbaijan. To this end, we consider it important to restore the negotiation process within the framework of the OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) Minsk Group co-chairmanship. In recent months, the co-chairs have repeatedly noted in their statements the need to resume the peace process for the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict," he said.

Relations between the former Soviet republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan have been tense since 1991, when the Armenian military occupied Nagorno-Karabakh, internationally recognized as Azerbaijani territory, and seven adjacent regions.

When new clashes erupted on Sept. 27, 2020, the Armenian army launched attacks on civilians and Azerbaijani forces and violated several humanitarian cease-fire agreements.

During the 44-day conflict, Azerbaijan liberated several cities and nearly 300 settlements and villages from the nearly three-decade occupation.

Despite a Nov. 10 deal last year ending the conflict, the Armenian army violated the agreement a number of times and martyred several Azerbaijani soldiers and a civilian, and wounded numerous others, according to the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry.

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