Armenia ready to meet with Azerbaijan to finalise peace treaty, minister says

Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan has expressed his country’s readiness to meet with Azerbaijan to finalise peace treaty.

"Armenia is ready to meet with Azerbaijan to finalise the peace treaty and is ready to take practical steps to improve the security situation in the South Caucasus," he said at the session of the OSCE Council of Foreign Ministers in Skopje on November 30, Report informs, citing Armenian media.

The diplomat recalled that Armenia advocates the conclusion of a peace agreement based on certain principles: mutual recognition by Baku and Yerevan of each other's territorial integrity; delimitation and then demarcation of borders within the framework of the 1991 Alma-Ata Declaration on the principles and goals of the CIS; the opening of regional communications by recognition of sovereignty, jurisdiction, legislation, equality and reciprocity of the countries.