No one in Armenia voiced opinion that document signed in Washington  not peace treaty - political scientist

ArmInfo.  No one in Armenia expressed the opinion that the document signed in Washington is not a peace treaty. Political scientist Manvel Sargsyan wrote about this on his Facebook page.

According to him, when the Treaty on Peace and Interstate Relations  between Armenia and Azerbaijan was initialed in Washington on August  8, many thought that peace was very close. Naturally, everything that  happened in the US capital, Sargsyan continued, should have been  perceived in Armenia through the prism of expectations of peace.  Therefore, the text of this treaty, published on August 11, should  have exceeded all expectations.

"But what is the 17-point draft treaty really, and what actually  happened in the US capital on August 8? I once quoted statements at  the level of senior officials in Azerbaijan that Armenia should  correctly understand the essence of this document. They say that this  is a document that clearly spells out the conditions on the basis of  which we will negotiate with Armenia. However, no one in Armenia has  ever expressed the opinion that this is not a peace treaty, that yes,  Azerbaijan is offering us to sign a preliminary document on the basis  of which we will negotiate. No one in Armenia has said this, but  Azerbaijan constantly insists on this. This is one of the points that  is very important to emphasize, and secondly, these conditions are  very simple: Armenia must recognize the legitimacy of all actions  taken by Azerbaijan since 2020. It is not for nothing that Baku says:  "Let's sign this," and then about the main issues, and in this  published text there is no main issue. It is not for nothing that  Azerbaijan initialed it, it did this so that there would be no  further changes. In other words, in this and this is the political  significance of the initialed document," the political scientist  emphasized.

On August 8, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani  President Ilham Aliyev signed a joint "peace declaration" in  Washington. It provides for a joint appeal to the Organization for  Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to terminate the OSCE Minsk  process and related structures, as well as the creation of a  transport corridor through Armenian territory that will connect  Azerbaijan with its Nakhchivan exclave. The TRIPP (Trump Route for  International Peace and Prosperity) project, a 42-km road in southern  Armenia that will hand over control of the road to the United States  for 99 years, according to experts, is capable of significantly  changing the geopolitical situation in the South Caucasus.  On the  same day, the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan initialed a  peace agreement, which consists of 17 articles. The preamble of the  document states that the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of  Azerbaijan, recognizing the urgent need to establish a just,  comprehensive and lasting peace in the region, striving to promote  the achievement of this goal through the establishment of interstate  relations, guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the  Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly  Relations and Cooperation among States in accordance with the Charter  of the United Nations (1970), the Final Act of the Helsinki  Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (1975) and the  Almaty Declaration of December 21, 1991, and striving to develop  relations based on the norms and principles enshrined in the said  documents, expressing mutual will to establish good- neighborly  relations among themselves, agreed to establish peace and interstate  relations.