YEREVAN, March 14. /TASS/. Armenia turned to the OSCE Minsk Group to arrange negotiations on signing a peace agreement with Azerbaijan, the Armenian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Monday.

"Armenia responded to Azerbaijan's proposals and appealed to the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group to organize negotiations on a peace treaty between the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan on the basis of the UN Charter, the Helsinki Final Act and the International Charter on Political and Civil Rights," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Earlier, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov told journalists that Baku handed over a five-point proposal for normalizing relations to Yerevan.

Earlier, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has repeatedly stated that after the Nagorno-Karabakh hostilities of autumn 2020, his cabinet is ready to usher in an era of peace in the region. To make this happen, Yerevan intends to sign a peace treaty with Azerbaijan, as well as to normalize relations with Turkey.

Despite these statements, the situation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border and on the line of contact in Nagorno-Karabakh remains tense. On March 8, an Armenian soldier was killed by gunfire on the border, and last Thursday a local resident was wounded in Nagorno-Karabakh.