(Yerevan) Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Sunday that he had proposed to Azerbaijan to sign a non-aggression pact, pending a comprehensive peace treaty.
“We presented to Azerbaijan a proposal for a mechanism for mutual arms control and the signing of a non-aggression pact if the signing of a peace treaty were to be delayed,” Mr. Pashinian declared during the a speech on the occasion of Army Day in Armenia.
Azerbaijan and Armenia fought two wars, in the 1990s and in 2020, over the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, finally reconquered in September by Baku’s forces.
Since this complete reconquest, almost the entire Armenian population of the region – more than 100,000 people – has fled to Armenia.
In December, the two countries carried out an exchange of prisoners seen as a diplomatic breakthrough, and which revived hopes for peace. But tensions remain high and armed incidents still regularly take place at the border.