{"id":171158,"date":"2025-03-18T13:28:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T07:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=171158"},"modified":"2025-03-18T13:28:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T07:58:51","slug":"armenia-and-azerbaijan-finalize-peace-treaty-to-end-40-year-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/armenia-and-azerbaijan-finalize-peace-treaty-to-end-40-year-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenia and Azerbaijan Finalize Peace Treaty to End 40-Year Conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a historic breakthrough, Armenia and Azerbaijan have come to an agreement on the wording of a peace treaty, putting an end to nearly forty years of conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh region. This peace agreement was wrapped up on March 13, 2025, representing a major move toward fostering stability in the South Caucasus. However, Azerbaijan is insisting on a constitutional change in Armenia before the treaty can be signed, which has led to some uncertainty about when the official signing will actually take place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key Highlights of the Agreement<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Background of the Conflict<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict started in the late 1980s, as the region, which had a majority of ethnic Armenians, sought independence from Azerbaijan with help from Armenia.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This conflict escalated into two wars and caused mass displacements of ethnic groups on both sides.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In September 2023, Azerbaijan regained control of the Nagorno-Karabakh region through military means, leading to the exodus of around 100,000 ethnic Armenians to Armenia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Peace Agreement<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Both Armenia and Azerbaijan finalized the text of the peace treaty on March 13, 2025.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Armenia\u2019s Foreign Ministry confirmed that the treaty is ready for signing and proposed consultations on the date and location for the signing ceremony.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Azerbaijan\u2019s Foreign Ministry also expressed satisfaction with the draft treaty.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Conditions for Signing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Azerbaijan insists that Armenia must amend its constitution, claiming it makes implicit territorial claims on Azerbaijan.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Armenia denies the allegations but Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has acknowledged the need to replace the constitution through a referendum, though no date has been set.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a historic breakthrough, Armenia and Azerbaijan have come to an agreement on the wording of a peace treaty, putting an end to nearly forty years of conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh region. This peace agreement was wrapped up on March 13, 2025, representing a major move toward fostering stability in the South Caucasus. However, Azerbaijan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":171159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5364],"tags":[58],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-171158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-march-2025","tag-international-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171160,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171158\/revisions\/171160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171158"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=171158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}