In a response to a question from RFE/RL’s Armenian Service, Hovannisian did not provide details on when or what specific proposals were submitted.
Earlier, Armenia’s Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said in parliament that Yerevan and Baku were still negotiating “one or two wordings” of the potential treaty.
Hovannisian reiterated that discussions on these key points were ongoing, with Yerevan now awaiting a response from Baku.
On October 31, Mirzoyan expressed cautious optimism, suggesting that both sides could soon resolve their differences and finalize a peace agreement. However, he did not specify the exact issues currently being considered in the negotiations.
Earlier, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian had proposed that Armenia and Azerbaijan move forward with signing a peace treaty based on the parts of the draft both sides have already agreed upon, which he said constitutes roughly 80 percent of the document. He suggested that any remaining issues could be addressed later. However, Baku rejected this approach.
Optimism regarding the possibility of Armenia and Azerbaijan signing a peace agreement in the near future grew after Pashinian and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev met in Kazan on the sidelines of the BRICS summit hosted by Russia last month.
Few details of the October 24 meeting were officially reported, but an ally of Pashinian told RFE/RL’s Armenian Service last month that Yerevan was satisfied with the talks where some “tangible results” may have been achieved.
Pro-government lawmaker Hovik Aghazarian also confirmed that issues related to regional unblocking, and more specifically to the restoration of cargo transportation, were also addressed at the Kazan talks.
Armenia and Azerbaijan engaged in fence-mending talks following a deadly war in 2020 over Nagorno-Karabakh, during which Baku regained control of much of the breakaway region. Azerbaijan completed its takeover of the region in 2023 when more than 100,000 ethnic Armenians fled hostilities and resettled in Armenia.
The United States and other international partners of Armenia and Azerbaijan have repeatedly expressed their support for a peace treaty between the two South Caucasus nations, encouraging them to finalize it already this year.
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