Matthew Bryza: Pashinyan wants peace treaty with Azerbaijan

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan wants a peace treaty with Azerbaijan, international expert, board member of the Jamestown Foundation, and former US Ambassador to Azerbaijan, Matthew Bryza, told Report.

According to him, Pashinyan understands that Armenia's prosperous future requires it to restore normal relations with Azerbaijan and Türkiye, which includes transportation links: "This will lead to renewed trade and investment, new jobs, new economic growth, new prosperity, and political stability for Armenia itself. He has made it clear over the last years that he also wants peace with Azerbaijan. He wants a peace treaty with Azerbaijan. And he had been obstructed by the extreme nationalist regime in Karabakh and the military forces illegally remaining in Karabakh. After practically three years after the Second Karabakh War, now that that extremist nationalist regime and the illegal military forces of Armenia are gone, the last obstacles to a peace treaty have been removed."

Bryza expects Nikol Pashinyan to consolidate negotiations on a peace treaty and lead Armenia now to a prosperous future in cooperation with Azerbaijan and Türkiye as economic partners: "This will still take some time, and there are plenty of Armenian politicians who benefit and even profit in terms of money from the conflict with Azerbaijan and Türkiye continuing. But I think the political forces of peace in Armenia are growing stronger and stronger."