Armenian pundit on talks with Azerbaijani presidential aide: Baku seeks comprehensive peace

Armenian pundit Areg Kochinyan, representing the Armenian delegation, which visited Baku, said that Azerbaijan wants to move from the current state of “no war” toward a comprehensive and long-term peace with Armenia, and that it has no territorial claims against the country.

Kochinyan was commenting on a meeting between Armenian civil society representatives and Hikmet Hajiyev, assistant to the President of Azerbaijan and head of the Foreign Policy Department of the Presidential Administration, which took place in Baku on November 22, Caliber.Az reports via Armenian media.

He added that Hajiyev conveyed a message for the Armenian public, emphasising that for Azerbaijan, the war is over.

The discussions also touched on actions by both countries following the agreements reached in Washington on August 8.

On November 21–22, a group of Armenian civil society representatives visited Azerbaijan under the same initiative. During the visit, Armenian participants — Areg Kochinyan, Boris Navasardyan, Naira Sultanyan, Narek Minasyan, and Samvel Meliksetyan — met with their Azerbaijani counterparts Farhad Mammadov, Rusif Huseynov, Kamala Mammadova, Ramil Isgadarli, and Fuad Abdullayev.

Members of the initiative also met with the Azerbaijani president's aide Hikmet Hajiyev to discuss steps taken by Azerbaijan and Armenia to strengthen the peace agenda following the Washington agreements.

By Sabina Mammadli