Pashinyan accused Baku of hindering the achievement of peace  agreement

ArmInfo. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, in an interview with Public Television, commented on the proposal of Baku and Ankara for peace and the reason for the delay in the visit of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs to the region.

"First of all, I must say that making peace proposal is not the  monopoly of Azerbaijan. We have offered peace ourselves, we have done  it several times. And the statements that Armenia has not responded  are very strange. Armenia responded to those statements, Armenia said  that we are ready. We also stressed that the goal of the negotiation  format within the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs is  aimed at reaching a peace treaty. And we have said that yes, we are  ready for those discussions, we imagine that these discussions should  take place based on the results of the work done in the framework of  the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs, in particular, with the inclusion of  the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. We have clearly  stated this position, we have said that we are ready. In general, we  have adopted an agenda to open an era of peaceful development. We  received the mandate to open that era from our people as a result of  the extraordinary parliamentary elections. We have also recorded it  in the Government Action Plan. We have also responded to the  mediators, we have publicly responded that, yes, we are ready for  peace talks," Nikol Pashinyan stressed.

Responding to the remark that despite the fact that the foreign  ministers met within the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group  co-chairmanship, then the co-chairs stated that they should come to  the region, but there are still no concrete actions, Nikol Pashinyan  said: "Yes, recently, last week or this week, a delegation from the  United States arrived in Armenia, including the US Co-Chair of the  OSCE Minsk Group Andrew Schofer. I asked why the visit has not taken  place so far, and he said that they are working on organizing the  visit. And I think, yes, time has passed, it could have already  happened. I presume there are some obstacles from the Azerbaijani  side."