In an interview with TASS on September 17, Edmon Marukyan, the Ambassador-at-Large of the Armenian Foreign Ministry, stated that achieving a lasting peace with Azerbaijan requires restoring trust, for which Baku should release prisoners of war and withdraw its troops to the 1975 borders. 

"To achieve lasting peace, trust must be restored, Azerbaijan must withdraw its troops from the territory of Armenia to the borders defined in 1975. Besides, Azerbaijan has failed the process of exchange of all POWs, after that, it kidnaps new POWs and arranges some trials. In order to restore trust, it is necessary to release all POWs," Marukyan said.

"It is very important to take steps of trust from Azerbaijan in response to our steps. The process cannot be one-sided," he emphasized. According to Marukyan, the Lachin corridor should also be unblocked to restore trust.

At the conference "Strengthening National and Global Efforts to Determine the Fate of Missing Persons" on September 18, Colonel-General Ali Nagiyev, the chairman of the State Commission on Captives and Missing Persons and the head of the State Security Service (SSS) of Azerbaijan, said that at present, some Armenian ideologists, referring to history, raise the issue of impossibility of Armenians and Azerbaijanis living together.

According to him, the question arises about how the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh began, the Armenian population lived for a long time in Baku city and other places in Azerbaijan, including Nagorno-Karabakh, in comfortable conditions, as respectable citizens, and had sufficient authority in society.

"Unlike mono-ethnic Armenia, Russians, Georgians, Jews, and representatives of other nationalities living in Azerbaijan today form the basis of a multi-ethnic and multi-confessional state. We call on the Armenian population to live together. The Azerbaijani state and Azerbaijanis do not want war. Today, we are concerned about the speedy restoration of settlements destroyed as a result of military aggression and the return of 750,000 residents who have become migrants in their homeland to their homes as soon as possible," Nagiyev noted.