Aliyev says Armenia will eventually accept two conditions for peace

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said Armenia “sooner or later” would agree to two conditions needed to sign a peace treaty with Baku. He made the comments at a joint news conference with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Budapest, according to Report’s correspondent.

Aliyev listed the conditions as amendments to Armenia’s constitution and the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group.

Background. The Minsk Group, co-chaired by Russia, the United States and France, was set up by the OSCE in 1992 to broker a settlement in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Baku argues the format is obsolete after the 2020 war. Armenia’s constitution contains language referencing the right of the Nagorno-Karabakh population to self-determination; Azerbaijan insists that clause must be removed before a peace deal can be concluded.