Elchin Amirbayov: Armenia should remove territorial claims from its constitution

Bilateral negotiations for finalizing a peace agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia have entered a critical final stage, Elchin Amirbayov, the special representative of the President of Azerbaijan, said in an exclusive interview with writer and historian Carlo Marino for Faro di Rome and Eurasiaticanews, Report informs.

According to Amirbayov, the process is designed to reaffirm Azerbaijan's strong commitment to achieving lasting, secure, and irreversible peace with Armenia:

"To achieve this goal, it is our sacred duty to ensure that the future peace agreement makes even the theoretical possibility of a return to territorial claims, aggression, or military conflict completely impossible. Azerbaijan has suffered enough from this plague and wants to prevent this scenario from repeating in the future. For this, Armenia must urgently resolve the obvious territorial claims reflected in its current constitution regarding a part of Azerbaijan's sovereign territory. By denying the relevance of this main obstacle to peace and choosing simple and impractical ways to sign a poorly drafted text at any cost, Armenia seems to be ignoring the elephant in the room and trying to sweep under the carpet the main reason for decades of rivalry and confrontation between our countries. Thus, today the ball is in Armenia's court, and we hope that the historic opportunity to turn the tragic page of our relations will not be missed."