Why Armenia does not negotiate with Azerbaijan through Russia mediation?

Our agenda is peace, and we are going that way. Hayk Konjoryan, the head of the ruling majority Civil Contract Faction of the National Assembly, announced this on the air of the Public Television of Armenia—and responding to the remark that Armenia lowered its bar at the urging of the West, Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) was de-Armenianized, but Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev did not sign a peace treaty under the Western auspices.

"Differences between Azerbaijan's declared and real agendas also cause us concerns, which we raise at all levels," said Konjoryan.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced a few days ago that Azerbaijan is ready to sign the peace treaty in Moscow, but Armenia is not ready for it. When asked why Armenia does not agree to sign the peace treaty with the mediation of Russia, the leader of the ruling parliamentary faction of Armenia responded that there is still no agreed text of the treaty.

"The priority for Armenia is our interests, not the platforms themselves," added Konjoryan.

Regarding the remark that in the absence of an agreed text, Armenia nevertheless accepted the request to negotiate on Western platforms, and when asked what the is reason for not going to Moscow in that case, Konjoryan again insisted that the problem is the still-existing disagreements over some points of the peace treaty.

"At the moment, there is no treaty because there is no agreement on all issues; and after that, all technical and platform-related issues become secondary," Konjoryan noted.

And reacting to the criticism that the Armenian authorities, being guided by the concept of handing over Artsakh to Azerbaijan and getting a peace treaty in return, have failed, Konjoryan noted that they did not have such a concept.