Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan: On what basis did the Ministry of Foreign Affairs say that a peace treaty can be signed in a month?

What the president of Azerbaijan said was not about achieving something through a negotiation process. The president of Azerbaijan simply issued an order, Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan told Russian Sputnik news agency with regard to Aliyev’s demand to change the Constitution.

Archbishop Bagrat noted that we cannot talk about discussions, because there is an order and instruction from Azerbaijan.

“Amid all this, how do you imagine signing a peace treaty in a month? Secondly, what kind of peace will it be? At what cost? What will be included in this peace treaty and how will it take place? They have been unable to decide even the issue of border delimitation and demarcation. This is not even delimitation and demarcation; this is a mere cession of territories without receiving anything in return: nothing. The leader of the present government said they ceded two and a half villages in exchange for the reducing of risks—not eliminating them, but reducing them. This simply means that if ten bullets were fired back then, now four or three ones will be fired,” he said.

According to him, we have found ourselves in an absurd situation where there is no conversation or dialogue between the two sides. There is an order, a threat of force, instructions, and coercion. “I do not know on what basis the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that a peace treaty can be signed in a month. And I would like to know the contents of that treaty. Let us not forget that the Azerbaijani side, at the president’s level, noted that all these processes should take place under their agenda and their instructions, that is, according to the Azerbaijani instructions and demands. We can see that things have been happening that way so far,” Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan said.