Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan has said that it is vital for the Armenian side that the rights and freedoms of the Armenians of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) is clearly guaranteed, and the status of Nagorno-Karabakh is finally clarified.

Mirzoyan made the remarks in an interview with Armenpress and confirmed that Armenia has indeed received a one-page proposal on the normalization of relations from Azerbaijan. The Foreign Minister noted that the letter dated February 21 was delivered to the Armenian side only on March 10.

The Armenian foreign policy chief stressed that negotiations on a peace treaty must be held without preconditions. He said that the two countries, having signed the "Agreement on the Establishment of Cooperation of Independent States" on December 8, 1991, have in fact already recognized each other's territorial integrity and accepted that they have no territorial claims towards each other.

"It should be noted that the provisions mentioned in the proposal do not fully reflect the whole agenda of problems we have. It is vital for the Armenian side that the rights and freedoms of the Armenians of Artsakh are clearly guaranteed, and the status of Nagorno-Karabakh is finally clarified. For us, the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is not a territorial issue, but a matter of rights," Mirzoyan noted.

"We believe that the agreements reached within the Trilateral Statements of November 9, 2020, January 11, 2021, and November 26, 2021, should be fully implemented, and we are consistent in this regard. As you know, we have even made comprehensive proposals for the implementation of these agreements, such as the proposal to launch a delimitation process through the mirrored withdrawal of troops and the introduction of an international monitoring mechanism, which, however, was rejected by the Azerbaijani side."

The Foreign Ministry of Armenia stated that it had applied to the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairmanship to organise negotiations on a peace treaty on the basis of the UN Charter, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the Helsinki Final Act.