BAKU, April 10. /TASS/. The work on a peace agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia is not without its hiccups but there is no alternative to this process, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on Monday after talks with his Kazakh counterpart, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, in Astana.

"I informed my colleague (the Kazakh president – TASS) about the current status of the negotiating process on the normalization of relations. We are committed to normalization; after the end of the second Karabakh war it was Azerbaijan who proposed to begin work on a peace agreement. This work has almost been launched but things are not going as smoothly as we would like them to. However, there is no alternative here," he was quoted as saying on his website.

The Azerbaijani leader stressed that relations between neighbors should be normal, "even despite the difficult history of 30 years of occupation and suffering experienced by the Azerbaijani people." "In spite of this, we are looking towards the future and believe that we can reach a peace agreement on the basis of sovereignty, territorial integrity, inviolability of borders, the United Nations Charter, all the fundamental norms and principles of international law to reach a peace treaty that will turn the page on years of hostility," he said.