But speaking in parliament on Wednesday, the Armenian leader stressed that there was nothing in that document that he did not speak about publicly.
“You won’t find in this document anything new, because I publicly talked about this document from this very podium,” he said.
Pashinian added that he would not go into details now since “any positive or negative interpretation will affect the course of the negotiations.”
Pashinian also publicly shared the instructions he gave to the Armenian delegation conducting negotiations in Washington: “I said, remember, it is I who will be signing the document around which you are negotiating. So, negotiate freely, within the framework of our political course and within the framework of our publicly expressed opinions.”
Speaking in parliament on April 18 Pashinian said that a peace treaty between Armenia and Azerbaijan will become realistic “if the two countries recognize clearly, without ambiguities and pitfalls, each other’s territorial integrity and undertake not to ever submit territorial claims to each other.”
He also highlighted the importance of an internationally visible mechanism for a dialogue between Baku and Stepanakert on the rights and security of the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev also stressed on Wednesday the need for Armenia to fully recognize Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity.
“I recently said that they [Armenians] just need to say the last word. They said A, and now they have to say B. They should say what I said, that Karabakh is Azerbaijan. I am waiting for it. I hope that the time for that will come,” he said, speaking at an international event in Shushi (Susa), a Karabakh town that Azerbaijan gained control of during a 2020 war.
The Armenian premier again stressed the need for having mutually recognized borders as he addressed parliament today. He said that having no territorial claims to neighbors now and in the future was key to preserving Armenian statehood.
Armenia’s Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that negotiations between the Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers were scheduled to end on May 4.