YEREVAN. Dec 4 (Interfax) - Armenia and Azerbaijan have reached consensus on 90% of a draft peace agreement between them, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said.
"We are committed to the peace agenda. I hope that we will intensify work around the draft peace agreement. In essence, 90% of the work has now been done, we only have to make the last efforts and sign the agreement," Pashinyan said during the government hour in the Armenian parliament on Wednesday.
There are no grounds for any escalation in relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan, he said. "I'm ruling out any action by Armenia aimed at destabilizing the situation in the region. We have no reason to attack Azerbaijan. On the political level, we have taken a step forward in terms of law and mutually accepted each other's territorial integrity on the basis of the Alma-Ata Declaration, and ratified the regulation on border delimitation commissions," the Armenian prime minister said.
More than 200 sq. km of Armenian territory remain occupied by Azerbaijan, he said. "But we declare that we see no solution to this issue by military means whereas the work of the commissions on delimitation gives us an opportunity to resolve all these issues through negotiations, on a legal basis," Pashinyan said.