Azerbaijan’s five demands for a peace treaty with Armenia

By Emilio Luciano Cricchio 

The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry published a set of five proposals on March 14, which it says are needed to normalize relations with Armenia. 

The demands are the following: 

1 - Mutual recognition of each other's sovereignty, territorial integrity, inviolability of international borders and political independence.

2 - Mutual confirmation of the absence of territorial claims against each other’s territory and the legal obligation not to make such claims in the future.

3 - To refrain from threatening each other's national security, using threats and force against each other’s national independence and territorial integrity, as well as from other actions incompatible with the UN Charter.

4 - Delimiting and demarcating the Armenia-Azerbaijan state border, and establishing diplomatic relations.

5 - Opening transport communications, and establishing other relevant communication and cooperation in other areas of mutual interest.

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The Armenian Foreign Ministry announced on March 14 that it had responded to Azerbaijan’s proposals and that Armenia has applied to the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs, a body set up in 1992 to find a peaceful solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, to organize negotiations towards a final peace treaty with Azerbaijan.