Armenia Expects Peace Treaty Signing in "Reasonable Timeframe"

The Republic of Armenia expects the signing and ratification of the Peace Agreement within a reasonable timeframe. This was stated by the Permanent Representative of Armenia to the OSCE, Andranik Hovhannisyan, yesterday during the meeting of the organization's Permanent Council.

The Ambassador presented Armenia's statement regarding the decision adopted by the OSCE Ministerial Council on the closure of the OSCE Minsk Process, the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on the conflict dealt with by the Minsk Conference, and the High-Level Planning Group, in which, according to the RA MFA press service, it is particularly stated:

"Armenia, jointly with Azerbaijan, has initiated the adoption of this Decision, based on the joint application of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan to the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, which was signed on August 8, 2025, in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States of America.

On the same day, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Armenia and Azerbaijan initialed the agreed text of the "Agreement on the Establishment of Peace and Interstate Relations between the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan."

The initialing was attended by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia, the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and the President of the United States of America, who also signed a Joint Declaration.

The Joint Declaration noted the need to "chart a path to a bright future not predetermined by the conflict of the past, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations and the 1991 Alma-Ata Declaration." The document confirmed that conditions have been created "for the start of building good-neighborly relations, finally, after a conflict that has caused untold human suffering, based on the principles of the inviolability of international borders and the inadmissibility of the use of force for the acquisition of territories."

The Declaration also enshrined that this "reality, which is not and should never be subject to revision, paves the way for closing the page of enmity between our two peoples."

In the context of this reality, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Armenia and Azerbaijan jointly applied for the closure of the

OSCE Minsk Process structures, as the latter "are no longer relevant, given the fact that the situation that served as the basis for their creation has undergone radical changes."

The Ministers also confirmed their "joint commitment to the UN Charter and the Helsinki Final Act to continue the process of normalization of relations at the bilateral level."