Farid Shafiyev: Azerbaijan actively working on peace treaty

Azerbaijan is actively working to prepare a peace treaty with Armenia, Chairman of the Center of Analysis of International Relations (CAIR) Farid Shafiyev said at a symposium on the topic “The Third Anniversary of the Great Victory: Challenges and Prospects of the Post-Conflict Period,” Report informs.

He noted that this peace treaty will be based on three main principles: ensuring territorial integrity, opening transport links and delimiting borders.

“Even after the victory in the Second Karabakh War in 2020, Azerbaijan expressed its readiness to start working on a peace treaty, but the other side [Armenia] didn’t try to help in this,” Shafiyev said, adding that after September 2023, the Armenian government slightly changed its views on this occasion and declared its readiness to sign a peace treaty.

“But this doesn’t mean that all issues will be resolved. Many international actors are trying to put on the international agenda the issue of the return of Karabakh Armenians to the liberated lands, but no one is talking about the return of Azerbaijanis expelled from Armenia,” he added.