ArmInfo.Speaking about the proposals submitted by Azerbaijan, I want to once again emphasize the following: no matter how many points there are – 5, 7 or 17, we have only one point, we will not be part of Azerbaijan and henceforth will remain a de facto independent state.
This is stated in the statement of Artsakh Foreign Minister David Babayan. "All Armenians decide the fate of Artsakh, especially Artsakh. We will pursue this line to the end, because the fate of all Armenians really depends on the fate of Artsakh, and somewhere the further course of world politics," summed up Babayan.
Earlier, Baku sent 5 proposals to Yerevan on the normalization of bilateral relations. The Armenian authorities called them acceptable. On March 14, the Armenian Foreign Ministry issued a statement, in which, in particular, it stated that "Yerevan responded to the proposals submitted by Baku and turned to the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairmanship to organize negotiations on the conclusion of a peace treaty between the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan on the basis of the Charter UN, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Helsinki Final Act.
After this statement of the Armenian Foreign Ministry, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry published proposals of 5 points sent to Yerevan. This, in particular, refers to the following proposals: "Mutual recognition by states of sovereignty, territorial integrity, inviolability of state borders and political independence of each other; mutual confirmation by states of the absence of territorial claims against each other and their acceptance of a legal obligation not to make such claims in the future; refrain from threatening each other's security in international relations, using threats and force against political independence and territorial integrity, as well as other circumstances that do not correspond to the purposes of the UN Charter; delimitation and demarcation of the state border, establishment of diplomatic relations; opening transport links and communications, establishing other relevant communications and cooperation in other areas of mutual interest".
The opposition criticized these actions of the Armenian Foreign Ministry, recalling that the OSCE Minsk Group does not have a mandate to negotiate the normalization of Armenian-Azerbaijani bilateral relations. The parties are now actively preparing to launch the process of border delimitation and ensuring border security.