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Pashinyan sets terms for peace: no enclaves on either side, all roads open, no claims

Armenia’s prime minister set out on 14 October what the country should look like after the peace agreement with Azerbaijan is signed and ratified: the same 29,743 square kilometres the state counts today, borders drawn from the Alma-Ata Declaration, enclaves exchanged for land of equal size and all roads open, within TRIPP and beyond it.

By CAW Staff15 October 2026
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Nikol Pashinyan described the peace he wants in a video on his Facebook page, Armenpress reported at 09:58 on Wednesday. Armenia should have a territory of 29,743 square kilometres, and delimitation and demarcation should proceed on the basis of the Alma-Ata Declaration, he said.

The figure is Armenia’s area as its own statistics count it now, and the 1991 declaration takes the Soviet republics’ administrative borders as state borders, which leaves four Azerbaijani enclaves inside Armenia and one Armenian exclave, Artsvashen, inside Azerbaijan. Those should go: “there should be no enclaves or exclaves on either side of the border,” so the two countries “should carry out an exchange of territories of corresponding precise sizes.”

Armenia should have a territory of 29,743 square kilometres, and delimitation and demarcation should proceed on the basis of the Alma-Ata Declaration, he said.

Roads were his second point. All communication routes should be open within the framework of the TRIPP project, the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity across Armenia’s south, “but not only within the framework of the TRIPP project,” including traffic between two parts of Armenia across Azerbaijan and between two parts of Azerbaijan across Armenia, he said.

Neither side should make claims against the other or “bother each other on any issue,” he added, naming Karabakh, Gardman, Shirvan and Nakhchivan, the names under which claims against Azerbaijan are raised in Armenia, and “Western Azerbaijan,” the name under which claims against Armenia are raised in Azerbaijan.

Pashinyan linked the proposal to his talks at Avaza, the Turkmen resort where the region’s leaders met last week. “Based on the results of my engagements with the President of Azerbaijan in Turkmenistan, I have the preliminary impression that we have an opportunity to give peace such a form,” he said, and the coming months would turn that possibility into reality.

No Azerbaijani answer to the video had appeared by Thursday morning, when Aliyev opens the CICA summit, the Asian security forum, in Baku.

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