| Zheleznovodsk Communiqué | |
|---|---|
| Created | September 23, 1991 |
| Signatories |  Boris Yeltsin Ayaz Mutalibov Nursultan Nazarbayev Levon Ter-Petrosian |
| Purpose | Peace agreement betweenArmenia andAzerbaijan |
TheZheleznovodsk Communiqué, also known as theZheleznovodsk Declaration orZheleznovodsk Accords, was a joint peacecommuniqué mediated byRussian president,Boris Yeltsin andKazakh president,Nursultan Nazarbayev inZheleznovodsk,Russia on September 23, 1991, with an intention to end the three-year-long hostilities between Armenia and Azerbaijan over theNagorno-Karabakh region, still an autonomous oblast of theAzerbaijan SSR.[1] Although consensus was reached, the treaty was never ratified.
Theconflict overNagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast of Azerbaijan SSR which started in early 1988[2] had developed unmitigated and claimed lives of many civilians, interior troops and army.
With consent from the authorities in Azerbaijan and Armenia, Boris Yeltsin and Nursultan Nazarbayev led a mediating mission on September 20–23 visitingBaku,Ganja,Stepanakert, andYerevan. Taking the principles ofterritorial integrity, non-interference in internal affairs of sovereign states, observance of civil rights as the starting point, breakthrough was achieved on September 22 when Armenia renounced all its claims to Azerbaijani territory.[3] This allowed the parties to agree to a joint communique the next day, committing both sides to disarm and withdraw militias, allow return ofrefugees andIDPs, re-establish Soviet-era administrative order of the Nagorno-Karabakhoblast and set up delegations to find a peaceful solution to the conflict.Soviet army and internal troops would still remain in the conflict zone and the process would be supervised by Russian and Kazakh officials. The peace communiqué was discussed with participation of Y. Shaposhnikov, V.Barannikov, S. Voskanyan, M. Gezalov, V. Dzhafarov,R. Kocharian, L. Petrosian, M. Radayev and was signed byBoris Yeltsin (Russian Federation),Ayaz Mutalibov (Azerbaijan),Nursultan Nazarbayev (Kazakhstan) andLevon Ter-Petrosian (Armenia).[4]
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