“Fewer issues remain open,” Bayramov said, according to Azerbaijani news agencies.
He confirmed that Baku has received fresh Armenian proposals regarding the treaty. “We notice positive dynamics on some points,” he said without going into details.
The Armenian Foreign Ministry reported on Tuesday that it officially responded to the most recent Azerbaijani proposals on the treaty received by it on April 26. It too did not give any details of the written exchanges.
Bayramov and his Armenian counterpart Ararat Mirzoyan met in Kazakhstan on May 10-11 for two days of fresh talks on the peace accord. Mirzoyan’s press office said afterwards that “there are still differences” between the two sides.
Mirzoyan has repeatedly complained in recent months that Baku remains reluctant to recognize Armenia’s borders through the treaty. According to the Yerevan newspaper Hraparak, the minister repeated the complaints when he met with Armenian pro-government lawmakers on May 31.
By contrast, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian downplayed on May 29 the differences between Baku and Yerevan. He spoke of “statements made from Azerbaijan to the effect that they are committed” to the 1991 Alma-Ata Declaration in which Armenia, Azerbaijan and other newly independent republics recognized each other’s Soviet-era territory. Yerevan wants the Armenian-Azerbaijani treaty to uphold that declaration.