The normalization of relations with Azerbaijan will open up opportunities for Armenia that cannot even be predicted today, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev said in his speech at the conference "South Caucasus: Development and Cooperation" held on Friday.
"You know how integrated Azerbaijan and Georgia are in terms of their energy and transport routes. I believe that there are also opportunities to invite Armenia to get involved in regional development. They will benefit from that. By getting access to our energy resources, they will be able to become part of international transport corridors to a certain extent. <...> The normalization of relations with Azerbaijan will open opportunities for Armenia, which today are impossible even to predict," the Azerbaijani leader said.
According to Aliyev, if a peace agreement is signed between Azerbaijan and Armenia based on the five principles proposed by Baku, "a long-term and sustainable peace will be established in the Caucasus".
On March 14, Leyla Abdullayeva, head of the press service of the Azerbaijani MFA, said that Baku had handed over to Yerevan proposals containing five basic principles for the normalization of relations between the two countries. They include mutual recognition of each other's sovereignty, territorial integrity, inviolability of borders and political independence, mutual confirmation of the absence of territorial claims against each other and the obligation not to present such claims in the future, rejection of threats of force. Proposals also include the delimitation and demarcation of borders and the establishment of diplomatic relations, the opening of transport and other communications, and cooperation in other areas of mutual interest.
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Based on materials from TASS