Armenia has presented to arch-foe Baku a project for a full peace treaty to end the Caucasus neighbors’ decades-long dispute over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Thursday. Pashinyan said Yerevan had completed on Wednesday “another stage of working on a project of a peace treaty and on establishing (diplomatic) relations” with Baku. “A project of a comprehensive agreement had been handed to Azerbaijan,” he told a cabinet meeting in Yerevan. Since mid-December, a group of self-styled Azerbaijani environmental activists has barred the only road linking Karabakh to Armenia to protest what they say is illegal mining. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, ethnic Armenian separatists in Karabakh broke away from Azerbaijan.

Source: Ethiopian News February 16, 2023 13:01 UTC