BAKU, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- Azerbaijan's foreign ministry on Monday published a peace agreement inked by the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia in Washington on Friday.
The document, entitled the Agreement on Establishment of Peace and Inter-State Relations between the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Republic of Armenia, specifies the obligations of both parties to recognize and respect the sovereignty, territorial integrity, inviolability of international borders and political independence of each other.
The agreement commits both nations to establishing diplomatic relations and prohibits them from raising future territorial claims or using force against each other. Third-party military deployments along their shared border are also banned.
A bilateral commission will be set up to oversee the implementation of the agreement.
Both parties also undertake to address cases of missing persons in their armed conflict and to establish cooperation in various fields, including economy, transport and transit, environment, humanitarian issues and culture.
Armenia's foreign ministry also released the text of the peace agreement on Monday.
The agreement will take effect after both countries complete internal ratification procedures and exchange the necessary instruments.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have been at loggerheads over the mountainous Nagorno-Karabakh region since 1988. Peace talks have been going on since 1994 when a ceasefire was agreed on, despite sporadic clashes since then. ■
