The Peace Treaty is ready for signing,” an Armenian Foreign Ministry statement on Thursday said in announcing that Yerevan has accepted Baku’s latest proposals regarding the remaining contentious points of the language of a peace treaty between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Armenia and Azerbaijan have been engaged in wars since the late 1980s when Nagorno-Karabakh, an enclave predominantly inhabited by Armenians, seceded from Azerbaijan

"Armenia has accepted Azerbaijan's proposals on the two previously unresolved articles of the peace treaty," he said. Armenia's foreign ministry later confirmed that in a statement, saying "negotiations on the draft agreement have been concluded" and "the Peace Agreement is ready for signing".

Armenia and Azerbaijan on Thursday said they had agreed to sign a peace deal after decades of conflict, with Armenia agreeing to surrender its claim over the primarily Armenian-populated Karabakh region.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan (left) and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev speak at the BRICS summit in Russia in October 2024. The two sides announced on March 13, 2025, that the text of the peace agreement between them has been finalized, but it is unclear when, or even if, it will be signed. (Photo: Ramil Sitdikov/brics-russia2024.ru)

Azerbaijan said Thursday that a consensus has been reached on all articles of the peace agreement with Armenia to resolve the Caucasus

Armenia and Azerbaijan have fought a series of wars since the late 1980s, when Nagorno-Karabakh, a region in Azerbaijan that had a mostly Armenian population at the time, broke away from Baku with Yerevan's support.

Armenia and Azerbaijan will not deploy third-country forces along their border after the two sides sign a peace agreement, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Thursday. Officials in Yerevan and Baku said earlier they had agreed the text of a peace agreement to end more than three decades of conflict between their countries,