Yerevan /Mediamax/. Azerbaijan has stated today that it is ready to start negotiations with Yerevan on signing peace agreement if Armenia accepts the 5 preconditions it has forwarded.

The preconditions published in the statement of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs are the following:

- Mutual recognition of each other's sovereignty, territorial integrity;

- Mutual confirmation of the absence of territorial claims by states against one another, as well as a legal obligation to refrain from making such claims in the future;

- Refrain from threatening each other's security;

- Delimitation and demarcation, the establishment of diplomatic relations;

- The opening of transport and communications, implementation of joint programs.