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If Armenia wants to sign a peace treaty with Azerbaijan and resolve the conflict situation, it can still do so in 2023. Therefore, the coming year can be called the "last chance" for Armenia. This was stated by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in an interview with Azerbaijani television.
As the head of the Azerbaijani state noted, then the year 2024 will come, and in 2025 Russia's peacekeeping mission will end. What will happen next, Aliyev wonders. He stressed that he hopes that Yerevan will hear his message and draw appropriate conclusions.
According to Aliyev, if the Armenian side does not show interest in the problem, then Azerbaijan will not insist too much. Then the border between the two countries "will pass where it should be." After all, without the delimitation of the state border, it is difficult to say where it passes. Accordingly, the issue of the border should concern Armenia even more than Azerbaijan, the head of the Azerbaijani state stressed.
Aliyev also complained that earlier he sincerely hoped that Baku would be able to sign an agreement with Yerevan by the end of 2022. But that didn't happen. The situation around the Lachin corridor remains tense.
Against this background, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan demonstrates an increasingly less loyal policy towards Russia. Protests are taking place in Armenia against the presence of the Russian military base in Gyumri, and politicians are talking about the possibility of deploying an international peacekeeping mission after the expiration of the stay of the Russian peacekeeping contingent in the region.
