President: Main principles of peace treaty can be finalized in a few months

“I believe we can finalize the text of the peace agreement, or at least its main principles,” Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said as he received credentials of newly appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Canada Kevin Hamilton on July 1, Report informs via AZERTAC..

During the occupation period, the mediators' plan was to agree on the basic principles known as the Madrid Principles, the President said.

“These principles should have been initialled with the text to be drafted later. We believe this could be an option—reaching an agreement on the basic principles, initialling them, and then working on the text,” President Ilham Aliyev noted.