A Provision on the normalization of Armenian-Azerbaijani relations included in the Baghdad Declaration

The 52nd Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) was held in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, on October 17–18.

Azerbaijan was represented at the session by a delegation led by Deputy Foreign Minister Yalchin Rafiyev. In his remarks, Rafiyev addressed the process of normalizing relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the Palestinian issue, and Azerbaijan’s priorities for its upcoming chairmanship of the OIC Summit.

Following the session, resolutions were adopted on political, economic, humanitarian, cultural, and several other issues, along with the Baghdad Declaration.

In addition, the Baghdad Declaration included a provision concerning the process of normalizing relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

The declaration welcomes progress in the normalization of Armenian-Azerbaijani relations, particularly the initialing of the Agreement on the Establishment of Peace and Inter-State Relations between the two countries.