(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 6. After the end of the
conflict, which lasted for about thirty years as a result of the
aggression of Armenia, and after the two countries gained
independence, for the first time they stand on the threshold of
peace with the obligation of mutual respect for each other's
sovereignty, territorial integrity and inviolability of borders,
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov said speaking at a
special meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council on Tuesday, trend reports.
Despite the suffering, destruction and deprivation suffered by
the Azerbaijani people during the conflict, Azerbaijan is actively
working to ensure a lasting peace with Armenia. It was said that
there are opportunities and real prospects for establishing peace,
strengthening stability, ensuring peaceful coexistence, advancing
the peace agenda, investing in economic development and
cooperation. Minister said that within the framework of the
Azerbaijani-Armenian normalization process, negotiations are
underway on the text of a bilateral peace agreement. He noted that
the talks held over the past few weeks in Washington, Brussels,
Moscow and Chisinau made it possible to better understand the
positions of the parties. Jeyhun Bayramov stressed that Azerbaijan
expects mutual political will from the Armenian side to overcome
differences in three specific areas that form the agenda of
bilateral discussions. In this context, Armenia's continued illegal
military presence in the sovereign territories of Azerbaijan,
consistent interference in internal affairs, obstruction of
dialogue between the central authorities of Azerbaijan and the
Armenian residents of the Karabakh region of the country, and the
conduct of a smear campaign on an international scale, including
within the framework of the OSCE, are the main obstacle for
negotiations on the normalization of interstate relations between
Azerbaijan and Armenia.
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