Armenia and Azerbaijan finalize the Peace Project to resolve the conflict | News

The peace negotiations after the restoration of Karabakh from Azerbaijan, focusing on a contract for the termination of military action for decades.

Armenian and Azerbaijani officials have said they have agreed to the text of a peace agreement to terminate nearly four decades of conflict between South Caucasus countries, a sudden breakthrough in a suitable and appropriate and suitable A often bitter peace processS

The two post-Soviet countries have led a series of wars from the late 1980s, when Nagorno-Karabach, a region in Azerbaijan, which at that time had mostly ethnic Armenian population, broke away from Azerbaijan with the support of Armenia.

The Armenian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Thursday that a project of a peace agreement with Azerbaijan was finalized by his country.

“The peace agreement is ready for signing. The Republic of Armenia is ready to start consultations with the Republic of Azerbaijan on the date and place of signing the agreement, “said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia.

In its statement, the Azerbaijanic Foreign Ministry said: “We notice with the satisfaction that negotiations on the text of the draft agreement and the creation of interstate relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia are over.”

However, the transaction time line is uncertain, as Azerbaijan stated that the prerequisite for his signature was a change in the Constitution of Armenia, which he said made implicit claims to his territory.

Armenia has denied such allegations, but in recent months, Prime Minister Nicole Pashinyan has repeatedly said that the country's fundamental document must be replaced and called for a referendum. No date has been specified.

The outbreak of hostilities in the late 1980s sparked mass expulsions of hundreds of thousands of mainly Muslim Azers from Armenia and Armenians, who are majoritarian Christians, from Azerbaijan.

The peace negotiations began after Azerbaijan picked up Karabakh in September 2023, which caused almost all 100,000 Armenians to escape to Armenia. Both sides said they wanted to sign a contract to end the long -standing conflict, but the progress is slow and the relationship is tense.

The shared boundary of both sides (621 miles) is closed and highly militarized.

In January, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev accused Armenia of being a “fascist” threat to be destroyed, commenting that Armenia's leader called a possible attempt to justify fresh conflicts.