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YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 28, ARMENPRESS. Armenia and Azerbaijan have consensus around certain proposals regarding the possible peace treaty, Speaker of Parliament Alen Simonyan said.

He did not elaborate further but mentioned that the proposals are “internationally accepted principles”.

Asked to present Armenia’s red lines, Simonyan said: “We cannot plant mines against the statehood, sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Republic of Armenia in the peace treaty.”

He said a peace treaty concerns the relations of two countries, and the issue of Artsakh must not be reflected in it. Discussions around the text are now underway, he said.

“Don’t get the impression that we are somehow trying to abandon the protection of Artsakh’s interests, the rights of the people of Artsakh with that treaty. We must understand, for example, whether or not the 9 November document satisfies us for stipulating these rights. And whether or not by adding a new clause, for example, in the Armenian-Azerbaijani peace treaty, we won’t revoke the highly important stipulations for us and the people of Artsakh in the 9 November document, which are signed by the president of Azerbaijan. Don’t get the impression that we are distancing ourselves by this, on the contrary we are recording what’s already been stipulated, and we don’t want to do any harm,” Simonyan said.

He added that discussions around the possible peace treaty are underway and it is unclear what final form it will get.