Mirzoyan: Peace Treaty is Mutually Beneficial, Roads to Open

On August 8, the Washington agreements recorded that there is now peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan announced this in an interview with Armenia's Public Television.

"We are not saying it's signed; yes, it has been initialed, and there will be actions, but I assume that the subsequent signing and ratification stages might not even surpass the initialing in their weight," he noted.

The initialed agreement and the signed declaration stem from and are built on mutual benefit for Armenia and Azerbaijan. "There is no provision that is significantly good for one country and significantly bad for the other," Mirzoyan emphasized.

Infrastructure will be unblocked under the following principles: within the framework of territorial integrity, including the inviolability of borders, the sovereignty and jurisdiction of countries, and reciprocity, the Foreign Minister recalled.

"All necessary guarantees are recorded. Before the opening of infrastructure, there must be border delimitation and the construction of a border checkpoint," Mirzoyan stressed, adding that the land through which the infrastructure will pass in RA territory, which will also be used by Azerbaijani trains, for example, will belong to the RA. "Talks about 99 years currently have no connection with reality."

We are trying to make the RA a place of cooperation, not a clash of interests, noted Ararat Mirzoyan, expressing cautious optimism that in parallel with the normalization of relations with Azerbaijan, there will also be a certain positive shift in Turkey-Armenia relations. "We also have a dynamic dialogue with the Turkish side. After the initialing of the agreement with Azerbaijan, logic tells me that the unblocking of RA-Turkey infrastructure should follow."