Pashinyan supports bilateral negotiations with Azerbaijan for normalization of relations

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YEREVAN, September 2. /ARKA/. Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan expressed his support for a bilateral format of negotiations with Azerbaijan to normalize relations between the two countries as he spoke at a press conference on Saturday./pp

Armenia values the assistance of all its partners in the peace process with Azerbaijan... For a long time now, work with Azerbaijan has been conducted in a bilateral format, and we can say that there has been noticeable activity in this regard since the joint statement in December 2023 and up to the statement of April 19, 2024, Pashinyan said./pp

The Prime Minister also announced that an agreement on the joint activities of the Armenian and Azerbaijani border delimitation commissions was signed on Friday./pp

We believe it is important to focus on this issue because the general understanding was that at this stage, we are working in a bilateral format, and since we are making progress in this format, I consider it the right approach, Pashinyan said./pp

He added that he communicated this directly and openly to Vladimir Putin during their last phone conversation. However, he noted that bilateral work does not exclude other formats, emphasizing the need to consider each specific issue within its own context./pp

Pashinyan also addressed claims that Armenia turned down a meeting with Azerbaijan at the European summit in London. Armenia did not turn down the meeting. I personally suggested to the President of Azerbaijan, not directly, but through diplomatic channels, that a bilateral meeting take place, the Prime Minister clarified./pp

He mentioned the possibility of a high-level Armenian-Azerbaijani meeting, potentially at the border where the two countries' commissions usually meet./pp br/p