Peace must be eternal for future generations: Euronews interview with Armenian, Azerbaijani top officials

Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia, Armen Grigoryan, and Hikmet Hajiyev, Assistant to the President of Azerbaijan, gave an exclusive interview to Euronews in Doha, discussing the peace process. The two officials participated in a panel discussion on the Armenian-Azerbaijani peace accords at the Doha Forum 2025.

Grigoryan and Hajiyev told Euronews that Armenia and Azerbaijan started their talks in 2020, supported by the European Union and culminating with the U.S.-brokered historic peace agreement.

Hajiyev said the two sides had “a good chance to meet” in Brussels after which the two countries’ leaderships decided to move towards peace and “put aside disagreements that we had together”.

Grigoryan continued by telling Euronews that “the leaderships have been thinking about how to bring peace and stability to the region” which then led to the discussions on “how to institutionalise the peace and move forward”.

“The success is great and we are celebrating it,” Grigoryan told Euronews.

“In all conflicts, sides don't trust each other. But we have been working towards this. As the famous song said, it’s another brick in the wall, in the positive sense of that quote. We have been working towards that, trying to build that wall of trust, trying to move in that direction,” Grigoryan added.

Azerbaijan’s representative added that the joint peace process is a “success story, in the global context of conflicts and wars.” As “this chapter of the conflict is closed, with real peace on the ground,” Azerbaijan and Armenia are embarking together on a massive economic expansion of the region for the common benefit of the two nations.

“We are sure that the implementation of regional economic projects will increase interdependency and strengthen peace and also economic benefits for both societies," Grigoryan said.

“We are moving in that direction and the proof of that also is that me and Hikmet are sitting together in your studio here in Doha,” Grigoryan told Euronews.

Both speakers underlined that the current peace process is for “generations to come”, that peace is “irreversible”, and that both countries are working on what they both called “confidence-building measures” for both nations to engage, even if “it requires a lot of hard work from both countries and societies” after decades of war.

The transformation of the region is now both countries’ objective, as “peace is like a strategic commodity,” they agreed.

“The big, beautiful deal reached in Washington”, as Grigoryan called it, will bring the implementation of the so-called Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity (TRIPP) between the two countries which “will completely change the transport map of the Eurasian continent”, Hajiyev said.

Grigoryan said the project implementation is now being intensively discussed with the United States.

“I hope it will be very soon. And after that the whole technical process will start and we will work on that direction to unblock the region to open the trip, which is a very huge and very important historical project in our region. So we continue to work on that direction,” Secretary Grigoryan said in the Euronews exclusive interview.

The two representatives concluded that the war was over, that peace must be “eternal” for future generations, and that both countries should now look toward a joint future.