Armenian FM: Azerbaijan lacks political will to sign agreed-upon peace agreement

Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan has said that Armenia does not see the political will from Azerbaijan to sign the agreed-upon part of the peace agreement. 

Mirzoyan made these remarks at the Warsaw Security Forum, Caliber.Az reports via Russian media.

"There is a real opportunity to close the chapter on the conflict in our region between Armenia and Azerbaijan and to open a new chapter of peace and cooperation. However, Azerbaijan refuses to sign this peace agreement, citing new reasons each time. We can see that Azerbaijan simply does not want to sign it. No agreement in the world can address all the issues between the parties; we propose signing this document and then negotiating the remaining issues," he added.

Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry previously deemed Armenia's proposal to sign a draft peace agreement while excluding unresolved provisions as unacceptable.

"The call from Armenian officials to sign the draft 'peace agreement,' omitting the unresolved points, along with attempts to defer existing issues in bilateral relations to a later stage, is unacceptable," Spokesman for Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry Aykhan Hajizada said.

By Naila Huseynova