Foreign Ministry asked for Karabakh assurances in Yerevan-Baku deal

PanARMENIAN.Net - The Country of Living party has sent a letter to the Armenian Foreign Ministry to obtain assurances that Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) will not be recognized as part of Azerbaijan under a peace treaty supposed to be signed with Azerbaijan.

"On July 8, 1992, the Supreme Council of the Republic of Armenia adopted a decision on the situation in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, which remains in force, being a key document of the position of the Republic of Armenia on Artsakh," the party said in a statement.

"The Country of Living party has asked assurances from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that the treaty set to be signed with Azerbaijan or any provision(s) thereof will not contradict the decision of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Armenia dated 08.07.1992, according to the 2nd part of which any international or domestic document where the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic is mentioned as part of Azerbaijan is considered inadmissible for the Republic of Armenia."

In early April, Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to kick-start peace talks. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in a statement that he and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev had agreed to set up a bilateral border commission by the end of April.