BAKU. May 3 (Interfax) - Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has said he hopes to see progress in the normalization of Azerbaijani-Armenian relations following negotiations between Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov and his Armenian counterpart Ararat Mirzoyan in Washington.
"Hopefully, the talks in Washington will deliver if not some kind of result then at least some visible progress," Aliyev said at the fourth international conference with the theme, "Shaping Geopolitics of the Greater Eurasia: from Past to Present to Future" in Shusha on Wednesday.
He noted that Azerbaijan offered Armenia to normalize relations in fall 2020, after the Second Karabakh War, which, in his words, would meet the interests of both Baku and Yerevan.
According to Aliyev, Baku presented four drafts of a peace treaty to Yerevan, and spent "over 40 days" waiting for Yerevan's response to the latest proposals. The response was given "a week ago, before the meeting in Washington, as they realized that the meeting in Washington would be completely meaningless without it," he said.
However, Baku saw" territorial claims to Azerbaijan yet again" in this response, Aliyev said.
Any attempt at including "the so-called NKR [Nagorno-Karabakh Republic], which does not exist, in the text of the peace treaty is counterproductive," he said.
There will be no peace and interaction between Baku and Yerevan unless Armenia demonstrates a constructive approach, Aliyev said. In that case, Armenia will have to find a place for itself "in the new geopolitical configuration, since the entire geopolitical situation in the region and the world at large has changed," he said.