Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan spoke on Monday with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in a telephone conversation, in which the two discussed the future of Turkey-Armenia relations and the Turkish leader congratulated him on the recent peace agreement signed with Azerbaijan.
According to Turkish media, citing sources from the Turkish Presidential Communications Office, during the telephone conversation the peace talks between Armenia and Azerbaijan were discussed, with Erdoğan indicating that negotiations at a technical level to advance the process of normalisation of relations between Turkey and Armenia – broken in 1993 in the wake of the first Karabakh war– will continue.
Last Friday, 8 August, the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan signed a joint declaration in Washington DC during a tripartite summit with the participation of US President Donald Trump; the agreement, which is an important step towards a permanent peace in the South Caucasus and the normalisation of relations between Baku, Yerevan and Ankara, seeks to end decades of conflict in the region but also to reopen transport trade routes, in an area that is key to the transit of energy from Central Asia to Europe.
Yesterday, Azerbaijan and Armenia released the full text of the peace agreement signed at the White House. The 17-point document, released by the two countries’ foreign ministries, states that the two nations mutually recognise the borders of the republics of Azerbaijan and Armenia set during the USSR, withdrawing any territorial claims on the other country and pledging not to raise them in the future.
The agreement also states that both countries renounce using force – or threatening to use it – against each other’s integrity or independence, as well as interfering in each other’s internal politics. Finally, it is agreed to establish mutual diplomatic relations, and both Armenia and Azerbaijan agree not to deploy forces of a third country along their border.
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Pablo Gómez is a specialist in Turkey and has been editor-in-chief of Hispanatolia since 2011. He has been analysing current affairs and geopolitics in Turkey and the surrounding region since 2006.
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