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PM Pashinyan: Peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan is an accomplished fact

09 October 2026 10:15 (UTC +04:00)

Peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan is an accomplished fact, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said during his speech at the meeting of the CIS Council of Heads of State in Turkmenbashi, APA's correspondent dispatched to Turkmenistan reports.

The Armenian Prime Minister quoted from the peace agreement initialed with Azerbaijan:

"The Parties confirm that, in full accordance with Article 1, they have no territorial claims against each other and will not raise such claims in the future. The Parties shall not take any actions, including planning, preparing, encouraging or supporting any activities aimed at the complete or partial dismemberment or impairment of the territorial integrity or political unity of the other Party."

Pashinyan stated that the agreement containing these provisions was initialed on August 8, 2025, as part of the peace summit hosted by US President Donald Trump at the White House.

"We have come a long way to achieve peace after the 2020 war. In this context, I would particularly like to emphasize the role of Russian President Vladimir Putin in securing the ceasefire in November 2020. However, unfortunately, even after the signing of the November 9, 2020 Statement, we were unable to achieve peace," the Armenian Prime Minister noted.

According to Nikol Pashinyan, there was only one realistic option for achieving peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan, and that architecture was built on the principles of the Almaty Declaration.

He stated that the adoption of the Almaty Declaration in 1991 had failed to prevent the escalation of the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan:

"For more than thirty years, the conflict continued despite the existence of the Almaty Declaration, as if the existence of this document had gone unnoticed. To establish lasting peace, figuratively speaking, it was necessary to revive the Almaty Declaration. We did this together with the President of Azerbaijan."

Pashinyan recalled that on October 6, 2022, following a quadrilateral meeting held in Prague at the initiative of French President Emmanuel Macron and European Council President Charles Michel, the parties reaffirmed their commitment to the Almaty Declaration.

"Dear heads of state, peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan is an accomplished fact. Today, we can note that for more than two years, no one has been killed or injured as a result of exchanges of fire between Armenians and Azerbaijanis. Yet, for more than thirty years, beginning in the 1990s, there were deaths and injuries on both sides every year," the Armenian Prime Minister emphasized.