Armenia, Azerbaijan could reciprocally drop international lawsuits in case of signing peace treaty

· November 25, 2024

A protester wearing the Armenian national flag stands in front of Russian peacekeepers blocking the road outside Stepanakert, capital of the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, on December 24, 2022. - Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on December 23, 2022 called for de-escalation in Azerbaijan's Armenian-populated Nagorno-Karabakh, a region which has sparked two wars between the Caucasus neighbours. (Photo by Davit GHAHRAMANYAN / AFP) (Photo by DAVIT GHAHRAMANYAN/AFP via Getty Images)

YEREVAN (ARMENPRESS) — Armenia and Azerbaijan could reciprocally drop international lawsuits against each other in case of signing a peace treaty, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said.

Pashinyan commented on demands voiced by the Azerbaijani side to refuse from filing lawsuits against each other in international courts in context of signing the peace treaty.

In an interview with Public Television, he didn’t rule out that Armenia and Azerbaijan could make a deal on not filing lawsuits against each other in international courts in case of achieving peace.

“If we approach the matter from the point of view of principle, my approach is the following, if we see that we are truly reaching peace, signing a peace treaty, I think that we can make that deal, which means that we shall not file lawsuits against them, and they against us, regarding previous events, reciprocally drop the lawsuits and hope there is no occasion of filing a lawsuit in the future,” Pashinyan said. However, he added, in case of an occasion to file a lawsuit in the future, the deal won’t restrict neither side from doing so.

Speaking about Azerbaijan’s demand on withdrawing the EU civilian monitoring mission from the Armenia-Azerbaijan border, the PM said he has made a counter-offer to Azerbaijan: this regulation can be made in the delimited sections of the border. “There is objectively no need for having observers in the border which is delimited,” Pashinyan said.