Armenia has only pretended to think about the peace: Op-ed

Over the past few months, the situation in the South Caucasus region has begun to change rapidly. Great powers, countries of Asia and Europe, express their desire to strengthen and develop relations with Azerbaijan. The reliability and desire of Baku to develop a peace agenda in the region has attracted wide attention. After all, immediately after the end of the 44-day Patriotic war, Azerbaijan made a proposal to Armenia to sign a peace treaty.

Hiding behind a peaceful agenda, Armenia continued to arrange military provocations both on the border with Azerbaijan and in Karabakh region of Azerbaijan. Armenia has not yet withdrawn its illegal armed formations from Karabakh, although it undertook the obligation to do so by signing a tripartite statement on Nov. 10, 2020, with Azerbaijan and Russia. Armenia did not provide accurate maps of minefields, and its sabotage groups have continued to mine Azerbaijani territories, resulting in the deaths of civilians, journalists and military personnel. Despite all this, Azerbaijan has persistently remained at the negotiating table with Armenia. Several meetings have taken place in Moscow, Sochi and Brussels. Türkiye and Azerbaijan have approached Armenia with sincere proposals to work on improving relations and opening borders in the future.

It is worth noting that the policy of the European Union has also changed dramatically. The situation around Ukraine, the need to look for new ways of supplying energy resources and transport communications with Asia seem to have impacted the EU, which has gradually overhauled its policy towards Azerbaijan. Acting as one of the effective platforms for negotiations, the EU has supported Azerbaijan's aspirations for peace and reconciliation as well as for unblocking transport...