CIS chief: Washington agreements could form basis for peace treaty between Baku and Yerevan

The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) hopes that the documents signed in Washington between Azerbaijan and Armenia will serve as the foundation for a peace agreement, CIS Secretary General Sergey Lebedev said ahead of the next meeting of the Council of Permanent Representatives of member states to the CIS statutory and other bodies, Report informs via Russian media

“Just as we in the CIS countries welcomed the signing of the intergovernmental border agreement between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, we now view with great satisfaction the signing of this joint declaration. We believe this is one of the steps toward fully resolving disagreements and achieving a peace treaty between Azerbaijan and Armenia,” he said.