Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on January 29 that he has proposed the signing of a non-aggression pact to Azerbaijan, pending a comprehensive peace treaty between the arch-foe Caucasus neighbors.
Yerevan and Baku have fought two wars—in 2020 and in the 1990s—over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, which Azerbaijan recaptured in a lightning offensive last year. Almost the entire ethnic-Armenian population—more than 100,00 people—fled Karabakh for Armenia following Baku's takeover, sparking a refugee crisis.
Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev had previously said that a peace agreement could have been signed by the end of the last year. But internationally mediated peace talks have so far failed to produce a breakthrough.
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