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Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has made statements on the ongoing peace process with Azerbaijan, the delimitation of state borders and the terms of a bilateral agreement during a live broadcast on social media.
The Operative Information Center-OMM reports that Pashinyan said the final peace agreement should establish Armenia’s sovereign territory at 29,743 square kilometers.
The prime minister said the issue of enclaves and exclaves on both sides of the border should be resolved, and that Armenia and Azerbaijan should carry out a reciprocal exchange of territories whose exact sizes have been determined.
Pashinyan stressed the strategic importance of fully reopening regional transport and communications links and roads, both under the “Crossroads of Peace” initiative proposed by Yerevan and beyond the project.
The head of the Armenian government added that, under the logic of a final peace agreement, Yerevan and Baku should not make territorial or political claims against each other. “There should be no mutual claims on the agenda, including claims involving the terms Garabagh, Gardman, Shirvan, Nakhchivan or Western Azerbaijan.”
Pashinyan said that, following his meeting with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on the sidelines of the CIS Heads of State Council summit in Turkmenistan, he had gained an initial impression that conditions existed to give the peace agreement between the two countries constructive substance.
Relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia are being regulated on the basis of the new geostrategic realities that emerged after the 44-day Patriotic War in 2020. The text of an agreement on peace and the establishment of interstate relations between the two countries was initialed at a peace summit in Washington on August 8, 2025. The sides are continuing practical work on the agreement’s full signing and ratification, as well as the delimitation of the state border and restoration of regional transport links.
